The first thing that came to mind with this week’s prompt was “I once was lost but not I’m found, was blind but now I see.”
My salvation in Jesus Christ didn’t come with a bolt of lightning and it didn’t find me at the bottom of a pit because I had hit rock bottom with no where to go but up. I love hearing testimonies from people who can name the time and place they received Jesus as their Savior, and how they so vividly knew that they were saved, but that’s not my story.
I had a wonderful childhood and believed in God and Jesus and all the tenets of the faith, but I was once lost. I didn’t understand relationship versus religion. I never heard about relationship until my early twenties. I knew religion was a bunch of do’s and don’ts and as long as I didn’t commit any “big” sins I was good. I later learned that religion wasn’t going to get me to Heaven.
My road to salvation was more of a journey, asking questions, wanting more spiritually than I had, surrounding myself with people who knew truth and were willing to share it with me and finally surrendering to the one true Savior that I knew about, but had now come to know.
I was once lost, but then I was found.
I also came to know Jesus at an earlier age. He was always someone I knew so the concept of being “lost” was a hard one for me to wrap my brain around. Thankful the Lord meets us where we are and gives us true eyes to see!
Though I didn’t write about it, ‘Amazing Grace’ was the first thought that came to my mind too. By God’s grace, I came to know Christ when I was 12, then had the privilege of seeing the rest of my family come to know Him. It was really exciting to see my dad, in particular, grow more and more in love with Jesus. Old habits didn’t just fall away — it was a long and arduous road of sanctification. Little by little he began to reflect Christ more in all he said and did.
~Cindie, visiting from FMF#66
Loved this, Lezlie. The beauty of it is that we can now add the word once. I once was lost… that one little word makes all the difference. That once was our story, but no more! Thanks for sharing your testimony!