Sunday, January 1, 2012
Fellow Jehovah's Witness ... What would you say to her?
When I was 15-16 & still in school & had school friends, mind you I at that age was a firm believer in the truth as the correct and only true religion. I had been on my own since 13, but was talked into returning home by my mother, I was staying at my grandmother's before that. I didn't get along with my dad very well, it was a teenage thing, feeling my oats so to speak. Anyway I moved back home & went back to school. I met allot of kids that to me were nice & I considered them good friends, I talked the truth with them, they thought my beliefs were neat and a little weird, but liked me all the same. I started hanging with these kids at school, then at the roller skating rink, then bowling alley. My dad who I was still having issues with set me down and read me 1 Co 15:33, which I'm sure you have done with your daughter. I told my dad that these kids were good kids, they show respect to their parents, and agreed with some of our teachings, besides I wasn't going to be doing anything different than what we did when we hung around at school. I'm here to tell you that the Bible is inspired, it was written by the means of Holy Spirit. 1 Co 15:33 is very accurate, I never have stopped believing in Jehovah, but I smoked cigs & pot, even a little more into drugs than that, started swearing, and before I knew it I was partying like the best of them, just having a good time as the world of man says. I was very sad at were I was, I never gave up believing in Jehovah, but by my actions you would never know it, I was now on the opposite side of 1 Co 15:33, I was the bad ociation, and whenever I was around Witnesses I felt it, it drove me away from the truth while I still believed it was the truth. I longed for Armageddon, so I could be put out of my misery, I was smoking & I won't go into all what I was doing, I slept around, I married a none believer, I talked to her about the truth, she was favorable, then she became pregnant, our first baby, she miscarried, for awhile I blamed myself, but I thank my knowledge of the Bible, if not I would of blamed God for this. We got pregnant again, a beautiful baby girl, boy did I go through some mental anguish, it was alright for me to lose my life at Armageddon, I wasn't worth anything anyway, but now there was this beautiful baby, I started my way back, let me tell you it took YEARS, I had another baby girl, my wife got baptized, my life serving Jehovah was a roller coaster, I just couldn't get back , I'd do good, then slip back, do a little good, then slip way back, then do really good, then slip back. I even got baptized again, that didn't work either, I was still on the same roller coaster, so I gave my two girls to Jehovah in prayer, I knew he would take good care of them. My wife & I were divorced, I got married again 3 days after my first divorce was final, I talked the truth to her, she also was baptized. My life was still up & down until I read 1 Peter 3:21, I had read this verse before, but this time for some reason I read it different, It's Jehovah that gives one a clear conscience. 40 years it took me to finally be in good standing with my creator. I won't recommend the ride to anyone, treasure a good standing with Jehovah, and don't under estimate Satan, he is the master bird catcher, and remember it's not those kids that will cause you harm it's Satan! (Ephesians 6:12) because we have a wrestling, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.
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