My testimony of how I came to Christ is a simple but effective story. I was born dead for 23 minutes. God gave the doctors the ability to save my life. Because of this event I received Cerebral palsy and Epilepsy. With cerebral palsy I don't have the same amount of control over my body in terms of gross and fine motor skills, and balance. This is the reason I talk, walk, have note-takers and use my iPad. During my childhood I was raised in a Christian family. During this time of my life I was learning about how Jesus Christ died for my sins and forgive me so that I could have eternal life with him. During my childhood I went through hard times because of my disability. This included seizures and leg surgeries. Church was the most important thing to me in my childhood. But I was mostly like the Jewish Priest who kept all of the laws of the Bible. During my High school years I've spent most of my time with a club called Spectrum. They taught that it was fine to be who you are without being perfect. I actually believe this for a long time. They were big into supporting gay rights and marriage. I also believe that to be true and I called myself a follower of Christ. I became a hypocrite to the teaching of scripture. Senior year in sunday school the teacher challenge myself if I was a disciple of Christ. This leads me to college in which a woman of God invited me to DCF which case myself to look at Christ in hard times. My mother died of Lung cancer and it was just brutally hard to handle. Due to this traumatic experience I had voices in my head that told me basically God was not real or the Bible is not true. I knew that it was a false claim and leading to understanding that I need to remember and rely on the Gospel. Now I'm free from the voices and baptized in Christ. I want to share this scripture to show my life.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. (I Peter 1:6-9 NKJV)
