Hi. I am new here on the forum. Just a short intro, how I came to Christ.
My wife and I came to the Lord in our 40s. We were living a secular life and the wheels fell off in our marriage, and were getting divorced. We did it “our way”and it became chaotic.
We had already separated when my wife woke one night and felt the presence of Christ and His love. The next day she went to a local church and experienced God's grace. She felt we should get get together and try to make our marriage work.
I was so hurt by then, and I thought Christianity was a crutch, so I didn't want to try. But for the children's sake we moved into the same neighbourhood. In the next six months I kept challenging this “Christianity” until I realised that my wife had changed. She was not the same person she was before.
I realised that faith can only be tested if you have it. You can't test something you don't have. So I took all the steps that I should as if I was committing my life to Christ, but my daily prayer was “God, if You do really care about us as individuals, please show me in a way that I cannot doubt.” And God did. The first two times I questioned my experiences, but the third time was absolutely without a doubt, God showed me that there is a spiritual dimension.
I knew there and then that God does care and communicates with us, but it took me a few more years to believe in the Bible as God's Word.
That was because of this trend among certain priests who believe that we don't know who wrote the Bible and when it was written. Textual criticism they call it. It is actually quite easy to show that it is an unprovable hypothesis. I think the universities teaching this are afraid to test their hypothesis.
That was 25 years ago, and our marriage is stronger and better today than when we first met. God's grace is what saved each of us and our relationship with each other.
God is truly the God of relationships.
My wife and I came to the Lord in our 40s. We were living a secular life and the wheels fell off in our marriage, and were getting divorced. We did it “our way”and it became chaotic.
We had already separated when my wife woke one night and felt the presence of Christ and His love. The next day she went to a local church and experienced God's grace. She felt we should get get together and try to make our marriage work.
I was so hurt by then, and I thought Christianity was a crutch, so I didn't want to try. But for the children's sake we moved into the same neighbourhood. In the next six months I kept challenging this “Christianity” until I realised that my wife had changed. She was not the same person she was before.
I realised that faith can only be tested if you have it. You can't test something you don't have. So I took all the steps that I should as if I was committing my life to Christ, but my daily prayer was “God, if You do really care about us as individuals, please show me in a way that I cannot doubt.” And God did. The first two times I questioned my experiences, but the third time was absolutely without a doubt, God showed me that there is a spiritual dimension.
I knew there and then that God does care and communicates with us, but it took me a few more years to believe in the Bible as God's Word.
That was because of this trend among certain priests who believe that we don't know who wrote the Bible and when it was written. Textual criticism they call it. It is actually quite easy to show that it is an unprovable hypothesis. I think the universities teaching this are afraid to test their hypothesis.
That was 25 years ago, and our marriage is stronger and better today than when we first met. God's grace is what saved each of us and our relationship with each other.
God is truly the God of relationships.
