ALL ABOUT JESUS

I've had more people ask me when I came to know the Lord, and as best I can remember, He has always been in my life. I've never known a day, without Jesus in my life....I know that sounds strange, so I'll give you some of the tidbits that aren't in my testimony, in the hopes that you might just understand "me" a little better.Hopefully my testimony stresses Jesus, because it really is about Him, afterall.......it isn't about me, but so much of me, is grounded in what I believed about Him, as a child, and that's important, when we are teaching our own children. Don't become disacouraged , when trying to reach them with the word.........
Even before I was born, God had His hand on me. When my Mother brought me home from the hospital, she had developed Amoebic Dysentary, and was bed ridden for almost two years. Her Mother, would come pick me up and take me to her trailer, where for almost two years,I spent time learning everything she knew about the Lord.....She was a Dutch Baptist Minister's wife, and had little education, but boy, howdey, she knew her Bible. Her love of the Lord, and scripture was quite evident to me, even as a baby!
I spent most of my weekends there, all the way through junior high school, and her words remain with me to this day............... I have always been His. He has been with me through Epilepsy;divorced parents;the death of a sister; the death of a son; my husband's heart attack; my cerebral brain hemorrage....and so much more, and yet HE IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL!He allowed me to make my choices, and I did, but He was ever faithful and remained by my side, working me back to where He wanted me......Back to that full and abandoned love that I had as a child, for my Lord. When I left Aiken, I knew I was leaving a sound church, in its doctrine, and this saddened me. I didn't need to worry, because He is always faithful, and just zipped me right into another sound church, in Beaufort. I think the re-kindling for me, must have started when I went back to Aiken, on my birthday, and saw Mel Gibson's "The Passion Of The Christ".....all by myself. My heart nearly broke. These were things I knew, and felt, and Christ knew how much I loved Him,but that movie did something to me.......
Then, there was the Baptism......
I always said I didn't need to be re-baptized. That it was between the Lord and me, and then Frances sent me John Piper's book, and it mentioned about Baptism, and how going under the water, was symbol of going into the grave, as with Christ, and then coming out of the water was like being resurrected, and it hit me.I hadn't thought of it that way.......and then Jacki said that she wanted to be a part of seeing me be re-Baptized. I hadn't thought of it that way either...YIKES! I mean, if Christ wanted me to do it, by golly, I was gonna do it!..So the kid here, did!
There is so much more, but I've already taken up alot of space. I never had an "on the road to Damascus" conversion....mainly because I never had a day without Jesus in my life, and it has been an exciting life,folks! He has always been with me. I just think my love of Him, has gone up a notch.....
And that's okay too!
Becky