Hello, and welcome to
my Religion Page.
I don't intend this
page to be a "forced Christianity" page. I just want to share my beliefs
with others. That way, they can know the same love that I know.
I am sure that someone
out there is thinking that what I just typed is "hokey" but to me it is
very true. My typical belief is that if you want someone to understand
something, give them an example that they can relate to. In this case,
I am going to avoid the common verses, I will leave that to another page,
but I do want to share with you the story of how I became a Christian.
I remember lying in
my bed at age 4 or 5 crying. The thunder was very loud and they lightening
seemed like it was coming through the window. I must have been making
a lot of noise, because my mother came into the room to talk to me. She
asked me what was wrong and I told her that I was afraid of the noise.
She asked me if I remembered the Bible verse I had learned, "Do you think
you can tell me what John 3:16 says?" I answered, "God loved the world,
so he gave his only son, that we won’t die, but can live forever." She
made some comment about learning the correct words and asked me if I knew
what that meant. My honest answer was that they hung Jesus from a tree
without leaves. I told her it looked like two pieces of wood, not a tree.
She explained that the two pieces of wood were usually called a cross and
sometimes a tree. Then she asked me if I knew why he was hung on the cross.
I repeated what I have heard, "…to save us from our sins… what are sins?"
She told me that sinning included lying to people, taking toys from my
sisters, not doing what she and my dad told me to do, and also throwing
temper tantrums. Then she explained that sinning makes God sad and unless
we are forgiven we wouldn’t be with him in heaven. She asked me if I wanted
to go to heaven and I told her I did. She told me that all I had to do
was pray for God to forgive my sins and to believe that Jesus died to save
me. As I laid there, I prayed for forgiveness and placed my faith in Christ,
with some help from my mother of course. After we prayed, my mother told
me that as one of God’s children I would never have to be afraid again.
She told me that God takes care of his children and that He would protect
them from harm.
Shortly after,
she bid me goodnight and went to her room. I looked at the lightening and
heard the thunder, but it did not bother me. I fell asleep not realizing
the importance of the choice I had just made. I did not know that I would
be criticized, ridiculed and rejected, nor did I know that I had a friend
who would be with me through thick and thin. I did know that the storm
was not as scary as it had seemed a short thirty minutes earlier.
My life had been
changed forever, by the love of God. To this day, whenever I hear a thunderstorm,
or see lightning, I remember that night. I remember my promise to God and
I remember His promise to me.
In case you couldn't
guess from the language, this text was taken from a book in progress, please
to do not steal my work!
For those of you who
would like to know the actual verses commonly used to explain Christianity,
please click on the cross. 
If you need someone
to talk with further about this, please feel free to drop me a line. 
Return
to Main Page