Insights

I remember coming home from college one day and telling my mom that no one was ever going to ask me to give my testimony anywhere. We had spent the week listening to others tell their stories of how the Lord had delivered them from drugs or their family from alcoholism or living a life of rebellion or rejection of their Christian faith and on and on. I told my mama that I was thinking seriously of going out and partying a little just so I could have a good story that people wanted to hear and be inspired by. My mama leaned in and so sweetly said, “Baby, you have the best testimony, because you have the testimony of the Keeping Power of God. His ability to teach you how to trust Him, to lead you past the temptation to drink, smoke, chew or go with boys that do and keep you falling more in love with Him everyday is a miracle. It is a testimony of the Keeping Power of God and it is the testimony I most want you to have and share.”

So although at 19 I thought that was really boring, I have grown in my understanding of the precious gift of having that testimony, that story be my story. Not that I have lived a perfect life, only Jesus did that. I have sinned and blown it and repented and been restored a million times. But I have never walked away from the Lord. Where else would I go? He has the words of life! I have been blessed to have parents who followed the Lord my whole life and who helped my husband and I teach our children the truth of the Word and who God is and how much He loves them!

God is writing an excellent story in each of our lives. He is weaving different characters in and out of our lives, placing some there for a lifetime and some for only a little while, plot lines with twists and turns and some straight paths that lead to pleasant places. He is endeavoring to show us how much He loves us and will be present with us in the good and bad. He also somehow still allows us to choose to follow Him everyday or walk away.

If this “excellent story” was easy, everyone would choose to follow the Lord. God doesn’t promise us an easy story, He just promises to be with us ALL the way through our story, the good and the hard; and that is worth everything because He is worthy of it all, all the praise, all the glory, all the adoration for my story, your story and all of our excellent, beautiful, messy stories. I can’t wait to read the next chapter!

Becky Ross
Primary Education Principal
Logos Preparatory Academy