My story, it's going to be a long one:) Part 1: Scars

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April5

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Hi everyone:) first thing, 2 things. I am so glad to have found this social network site, really grateful for such a wonderful community, and secondly, this is going to be long, I thank you for your time in reading this:)Ok, so my testimony really involves my whole life, because every single thing placed in my life, I see now that God had that happen for soooooooo many reasons, especially for the reasons of wisdom, showing me the truth. I had many issues growing up but God saved me from all of them. This post is going to be on my scars. So when I was 6 months old, I got into a car accident. My dad had taken some medicine for a cold, and that medicine had strong symptoms of drowsiness, and he was driving. My mother was in the back seat while I was in the car seat. I started annoyingly crying, so my mother took me out of the car seat and just held me (no seat belt!!!). My dad was getting really woozy and starting swerving the car, the wheel went too far left and he tried to save it and he jerked the car to right too quickly hitting a side ditch on the freeway, you know the ones that are grassy and you are trying to merge into the highway, well yeah. And it was a deep ditch apparently, because the car flipped over, and I was flung out of the window, I landed right under the car, the car would have fallen me and killed me, but I suppose God's hands and plans are there from the start and nothing can change what He plans, but I didn't see it back then. So basically I have lived with a lot of facial scars and one caterpillar looking scar on my left hand kind of since I was born. I hated them, though I was not usually made fun of them, and grew up without major bullying about it, I hated it because flaws on the outside are frowned upon in most people's mind. It used to bother me a lot when people said things like, "Oh, I'm scarred for life," yeah you might be, but I literally am on the outside. But I love them soo much now, it's taught me to not look at looks, because YEAH it is wrong and askew for us to look at looks. How could another human being judge another one by how they were born? How can one aspect of looks be so much more beautiful than another. It is true that God made us all beautiful. If you don't look at looks, you meet so many more wonderful people and it's just so awesome to be free from all that. We have the ability to not judge. We are born of this world that placed a specific mindset on us, but you know it's set in the Bible to renew our minds. It's funny because everything that scientists are discovering has already been stated in the Bible. We have neurological connections that we can shift, it is hard to change how we think because we have been thinking that way for such a long time and our axons and dendrites have made synaptic connections that flow constantly in a specific manner, but we have the ability to change that, but God changed that for me in such a fast pace. If we were all stripped down to the bone, all we have left in a mental manner is soul and feelings. That's why God teaches us to love one another, love all and everyone, no matter what they do to us, we love them just like family. That's why judgement is so wrong in the face of beauty, riches, personality, anything, because we can hide so much and we never know the background of a person. If a "handsome," rich doctor was not saved and he met this homeless man that had all the wisdom that God could give him and the doctor was so judgmental on who he would listen and talk to, he may not ever receive that wisdom that the homeless man could offer to him. God of course has ways, but we ourselves do have brains and we can always be loving and caring to one another:) God is just so awesome; He really really is just so cool, to know that He's the reason for living and that can be made simple. We don't need anything but Him, and all He wants to do is just love us and care for us and spend time with us. That's how it was in the beginning. God made man to just be with him, and you just think about that and we don't need materialistic things, we don't need to become a high and famous person, we don't need anything, just God:) and in the end when we die, that's all that matters. In the end when the earth has ended, God is all that matters. How great is our God, right???!!:D
 
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Hi April5!
You have such an awesome testimony to share! You are so right about not judging people on looks or other things like that, God created us all in His image and loves everyone the same, that's how we should be! I know its hard for people to do that because the world is all about who's more skinny, more beautiful, who has the best house or the best car and none of that matters. Its awesome to read your story and see how God's been with you through your life from protecting you in that accident to bringing you to feel the holy spirit for the first time! God is awesome! Dont anything or anyone steal your excitement about the Lord! God bless you!
 
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wit2Christlv

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I know exactly how you feel. I was in a really bad accident where I almost lost both of my legs but the doctors were able to save them. I have alot of scars on my legs and when people see them their expressions say it all and it hurts my feelings but I am so thankful I still have both of my legs and my life. God is awesome. Thank you for sharing your testimony.