Swimming Upstream: “The Best Testimony Ever”

As a young Christian, when I was sharing my new-found faith with others, the only thing I could talk about was my testimony . The Bible and other Christian books were foreign to me.

So, over and over, I told how I met Jesus on a bathroom floor and how He had changed my life.

One time, I shared my testimony with another believer. His reply eventually became my favorite testimony of all time.

The forty-year old man shrugged his shoulders after listening to me. “Wow! What a testimony,” he said. Then, he added, “Mine is not much.”

“Really?” I asked with my chest puffed out, buttons popping off. “What’s yours?”

“Well, I gave my life to Jesus as a five-year old boy and have loved Him ever since; and I guess, that’s about it.” His eyes looked down as if he were embarrassed by his words.

At the time, I did not think much of his testimony. After all, he was not as big a redeemed sinner as me. I was the worst of the worse and he was this little five-year old boy. How much sin could he possibly have, right?

But as the months and years passed by, I realized his testimony was the best one I have ever heard. A young boy falls in love with Jesus and just keeps on faithfully walking with Him. Wow! How awesome!

We need to hear more testimonies like his.

And they overcame Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Revelation 12:11)

Swimming Upstream appears at this blog site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It’s  a little of this and a little of that, all written  to encourage and exhort believers in their Christian journeys.