I just got the okay to read this when I get baptized some time in a couple of months. Just waiting for my mom and pastor to pick out the selected dates that I posted on my Baptism Update in Foundation of Faith. So yeah anyway, I figured that I would share it so that everybody here can read it for themselves. I love hearing feedback, so be sure to let me know what you think alright? 
My Testimony
When I was a child I grew up in a Baptist church since my grandparents (Grandma and Papa) always used to take me there. However, when I was young, all I knew was that I liked going to church because that was a place that I could go to because I got a chance to be with them. Sure, I learned all about God’s love for me, but as a little child I really didn’t understand the concept of who Jesus was and what He had done for me. A lot of people don’t know this about me, but I am mentally disabled, and I was in special education in school.
Unfortunately, that made me a bully target. There were times that I came home from school and cried because the kids were so mean to me, and there were times when I was afraid to go to school at all. Now I’m sorry to say that this is sort of the same thing that happened to me at the original church that I had been attending. Instead of focusing on God’s love for me, they were trying to get me to fear Him. Since I was starting to become afraid of Him, I stopped going to church altogether and started making decisions that I now regret.
I was so afraid of God that I was afraid that I was a lost cause and I didn’t deserve His forgiveness. However, that’s when I was proven wrong. If I was truly lost and a hopeless case, then there would be no reason at all to celebrate Christmas and Easter. For it says in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” Now a lot of you might be wondering, how did I come to this realization.
Well it just so happens that I have reason to believe that God has made His presence known through me. At times when I wonder where He is, He tells me how much He loves me and how He wants me to know that He has always been with me. For Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” And I have reason to believe that’s what He was trying to communicate with me. Now let me be the first one to tell you that I am fully aware of the fact that I am not perfect, not by a longshot. I have a really hard time reading and understanding the Bible, and I have a hard time with praying because I’m not sure what all I want to tell God.
However, I have decided to get baptized because I feel that that is the best way to tell Him about my ultimate love for Him. The fact that He sent His only Son to be beaten and crucified on the cross for my sins is in my mind the ultimate expression of His love for me since clearly I don’t deserve it. It is for that very reason that I want to spend the rest of my life serving Him and live my life the way that He wants me to.
My Pawpaw passed away from cancer when I was nine years old. I still remember the way he looked at me when he took ahold of hand and knew how much I would miss him. If only he would have known that I grew up feeling so guilty for the times missed that I could have told him how much I loved him. That I could have given him a hug and a kiss every once and awhile although I’ve never been a touchy-feely person. I was so young that my mother felt that it was for the best that I never saw his body although deep inside of me I feel that I never really got to say a proper goodbye.
Although my grandmother passed away the year after I graduated high school, I was too late to say goodbye to her as well. Now I know that a lot of you here today might be feeling the same way I’m feeling. Maybe there are loved ones that have been in your life that you are starting to feel guilty about the way you treated them when they were alive. Let me be the first one to tell you that you shouldn’t feel that way.
For if they knew Jesus like I now know Him then they are not gone forever. They are not dead and they are waiting for you to make the same decision that I made. My family has reassured me time and time again that they know how much I love them and that they love me Just as much and that they are so very proud of the fact that I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Romans 10:9 says that “If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.”
That’s it. You have basically earned your ticket to Heaven. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you’ve made, it doesn’t matter if you went through periods of doubt like I have. Once you've repented of your sins and have decided to let Jesus come into your heart you will be saved. The bible also tells us that if you confess Him before men, that He will also confess you before His Father in Heaven. So that is really the reason why I have chosen to get baptized today.
I am so happy that Jesus saved me and that I have earned my salvation that I am not ashamed to prove it to the rest of the world. There is a poem that I wrote one time. You see anybody that knows me knows that I am a child at heart. I love the story of Peter Pan and when I was a kid I always wanted to go to Neverland. I didn’t want to stay there because I loved my family and I also wanted to grow up, but I wanted to visit there because everybody was always happy, it was always full of adventure, and nobody ever grew old.
That’ when I realized that that’s basically what Heaven means to me. No matter how much sorrow and pain I go through in this lifetime, I know that there will be a day when God will wipe every tear from my eye. In Heaven there is no more sorrow, no more separation, and there is nothing but happiness. Nobody is old and everybody who was sick is well again. The only difference is, that once I go there I do want to stay. So the best way that I can end my testimony is by saying this. I love you Grandma, I love you Pawpaw, and I miss you very much and I think about you every day of my life.
But thanks to the cross there is a way that I’ll be with you both again someday. I cherish that cross so much because Jesus saved me even though I didn’t deserve it. He gave me hope when I didn’t have any, and the power to know that this life isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning. I understand that it’ll be a long and winding road to Neverland, but “Once I have found my way there, I will never, never grow old. Thank you.”
And here is the song that inspired my poem "Neverland" and my whole entire speech.
My Testimony
When I was a child I grew up in a Baptist church since my grandparents (Grandma and Papa) always used to take me there. However, when I was young, all I knew was that I liked going to church because that was a place that I could go to because I got a chance to be with them. Sure, I learned all about God’s love for me, but as a little child I really didn’t understand the concept of who Jesus was and what He had done for me. A lot of people don’t know this about me, but I am mentally disabled, and I was in special education in school.
Unfortunately, that made me a bully target. There were times that I came home from school and cried because the kids were so mean to me, and there were times when I was afraid to go to school at all. Now I’m sorry to say that this is sort of the same thing that happened to me at the original church that I had been attending. Instead of focusing on God’s love for me, they were trying to get me to fear Him. Since I was starting to become afraid of Him, I stopped going to church altogether and started making decisions that I now regret.
I was so afraid of God that I was afraid that I was a lost cause and I didn’t deserve His forgiveness. However, that’s when I was proven wrong. If I was truly lost and a hopeless case, then there would be no reason at all to celebrate Christmas and Easter. For it says in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” Now a lot of you might be wondering, how did I come to this realization.
Well it just so happens that I have reason to believe that God has made His presence known through me. At times when I wonder where He is, He tells me how much He loves me and how He wants me to know that He has always been with me. For Psalm 46:10 says, “Be still and know that I am God.” And I have reason to believe that’s what He was trying to communicate with me. Now let me be the first one to tell you that I am fully aware of the fact that I am not perfect, not by a longshot. I have a really hard time reading and understanding the Bible, and I have a hard time with praying because I’m not sure what all I want to tell God.
However, I have decided to get baptized because I feel that that is the best way to tell Him about my ultimate love for Him. The fact that He sent His only Son to be beaten and crucified on the cross for my sins is in my mind the ultimate expression of His love for me since clearly I don’t deserve it. It is for that very reason that I want to spend the rest of my life serving Him and live my life the way that He wants me to.
My Pawpaw passed away from cancer when I was nine years old. I still remember the way he looked at me when he took ahold of hand and knew how much I would miss him. If only he would have known that I grew up feeling so guilty for the times missed that I could have told him how much I loved him. That I could have given him a hug and a kiss every once and awhile although I’ve never been a touchy-feely person. I was so young that my mother felt that it was for the best that I never saw his body although deep inside of me I feel that I never really got to say a proper goodbye.
Although my grandmother passed away the year after I graduated high school, I was too late to say goodbye to her as well. Now I know that a lot of you here today might be feeling the same way I’m feeling. Maybe there are loved ones that have been in your life that you are starting to feel guilty about the way you treated them when they were alive. Let me be the first one to tell you that you shouldn’t feel that way.
For if they knew Jesus like I now know Him then they are not gone forever. They are not dead and they are waiting for you to make the same decision that I made. My family has reassured me time and time again that they know how much I love them and that they love me Just as much and that they are so very proud of the fact that I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Romans 10:9 says that “If you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved.”
That’s it. You have basically earned your ticket to Heaven. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you’ve made, it doesn’t matter if you went through periods of doubt like I have. Once you've repented of your sins and have decided to let Jesus come into your heart you will be saved. The bible also tells us that if you confess Him before men, that He will also confess you before His Father in Heaven. So that is really the reason why I have chosen to get baptized today.
I am so happy that Jesus saved me and that I have earned my salvation that I am not ashamed to prove it to the rest of the world. There is a poem that I wrote one time. You see anybody that knows me knows that I am a child at heart. I love the story of Peter Pan and when I was a kid I always wanted to go to Neverland. I didn’t want to stay there because I loved my family and I also wanted to grow up, but I wanted to visit there because everybody was always happy, it was always full of adventure, and nobody ever grew old.
That’ when I realized that that’s basically what Heaven means to me. No matter how much sorrow and pain I go through in this lifetime, I know that there will be a day when God will wipe every tear from my eye. In Heaven there is no more sorrow, no more separation, and there is nothing but happiness. Nobody is old and everybody who was sick is well again. The only difference is, that once I go there I do want to stay. So the best way that I can end my testimony is by saying this. I love you Grandma, I love you Pawpaw, and I miss you very much and I think about you every day of my life.
But thanks to the cross there is a way that I’ll be with you both again someday. I cherish that cross so much because Jesus saved me even though I didn’t deserve it. He gave me hope when I didn’t have any, and the power to know that this life isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning. I understand that it’ll be a long and winding road to Neverland, but “Once I have found my way there, I will never, never grow old. Thank you.”
And here is the song that inspired my poem "Neverland" and my whole entire speech.
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