- September 3rd, 2007, 12:38 am
#106365
I promised Id put my testimony up here so here it is:
I was raised in a Christian home, with Christian parents (who have been happily married for 31 years btw) and a Christian grandmother who was personally responsible for both my parents becoming Christians. I was sent to a Christian private school, went to church pretty much every time it was convened, youd think thatd be enough for me to become a Christian, right? Uhh...no.
I was a good kid most of my life, I mean I did what I was told (well most of the time), and generally stayed out of trouble. That was the way things were until I got to high school. My grades had been slipping for all of middle school (I even repeated the 8th grade) and things continued that way into high school. Finally things came to a head when I was suspended from high school for the first time in my life. At that point my parents made me go on a fast and do some major word and bible study. At that point I realized that something was not right in my life but I really was not sure what. Fast forward, to April 2002. My mom got a letter from Liberty University in my name...so of course she opened it. I was accepted! LU was one of only three schools I had filed a final application to (the others being Virginia Tech and Old Dominion). I was excited, but in my heart I wanted to go to ODU because it was closer to home. Well, the summer went by and I began making plans for where I was going to live at ODU (I had not gotten any correspondence from them but I figured that they would take me thanks to my military school grades). Well, a week before freshman orientation at LU, I got a letter from ODU saying I had been wait-listed. I was crushed...but Mom and Dad rushed me all over Tidewater so I could get my things for going to Lynchburg, since that is where I was headed. So I arrived in Lynchburg in August 2002, as a kid with no friends, having not met anybody except the guys who would be over me on my hall (31-3 the same hall Im on this year). So I tended to spend most nights by myself either in my room or in the computer lab. Well I heard about this thing called Spiritual Emphasis week in the Vines Center. I skipped the services and spent the evenings in my room...then finally on September 2, I heard that a guy named Dave Earley was speaking (that was a Monday night) then someone else would do Tuesday and Wednesday. So I decided to check the guy out. I sat near the top in the middle area of blue seats on what would be the baptist side of the Vines Center and listened to the sermon. Throughout the night, I felt something in my heart, like a voice telling me, "this is what you are searching for...I am what you are searching for..." now I shed a tear or two but really it was more this fire in my stomach (and I knew it wasn't the dining hall food because I hadn't eaten that much before going) and I said to myself, "Jesus, Ive tried everything I can think of but I need you, just like my mom needed you, and my dad and my grandmother and the rest of my family...the door is open...this house is yours..." and on the floor of the Vines Center, I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as my Savior for once and forever. He has changed my heart in more ways than I can imagine, and he continues to change it even now...5 years later.
Liberty Class of 2009
2007 AND 2008 Big South Football Champions
2014 FCS Playoff Qualifier
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIP
- By Humble_Opinion