Your “Great” Testimony

People often ask me how to effectively share their faith. The very first thing one should learn about sharing his faith is that he is to share that which he has learned. That is why we are called to be witnesses of God’s grace. One testimony is no more important than another. We often make a grievous mistake by proclaiming that someone has a “great” testimony because he or she has been delivered from some form of dark depravity.

The clear fact is that one doesn’t have to have lived a life of debauchery in order to have a “great” testimony. God is sovereign, that means that He can do what ever He chooses because there is no one above Him. He has chosen and called each individual believer, and He is doing a work in that believer which is completely unique to him. The thing which makes his testimony “great” is that God has delivered him and written his name down in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Have you ever considered that it might be a greater testimony to have been kept from debauchery, than to have been delivered from it. If God, in His mercy, called to you at a young age, and kept you from indulging in the debilitating sins that so often accompany youth; then you have a much greater testimony than the one who fell into sin early and had to be delivered after the scars of lost innocence had marred your countenance.

So, exactly what has God been teaching you lately? To share your faith, begin with telling briefly how God drew you to Himself, and how you surrendered to His call upon your life. Then tell what God is doing in your life right now. Dear Friend, if God is not doing something in your life right now, it is because you are harboring unconfessed and unrepented of sin. Now that sin, might be the sin of carelessness, or laziness, or some other innocent seeming sin, but it is sin nevertheless. Should you confess and repent of that sin, God will restore you to a place of close fellowship with Him and begin again doing a work in your life. That, too, is a “great” testimony of beginning again.

Those outside of Christ’s Family are bruised, battered, and hungry for a place of beginning again. Your simple story of how Christ gladly receives you and allows you to begin again is a bright ray of hope in the otherwise dark and dreary existence of many caught up in this world’s system. Look for opportunities to share what God has done and continues to do in your life. God will use that witness of His loving-kindness to draw others to Himself. He has uniquely positioned you to tell your story to those in your circle of influence. Let others hear of your “great” testimony.