Series on Salvation Testimony #2

This testimony is from another good friend who also has a family that street preaches.

Kat's Testimony:

I have been saved since March 1989. At the time, I was in college and I had a good friend that was saved 6 months earlier. The day after he was saved, he contacted me and told me about it. He was so excited, crying tears of joy. He explained the Gospel to me and gave me a Bible. Inside this Bible he had written, "Believe, Receive, and Repent." My friend encouraged me to read the Gospels, which I did. Over the next few months, we had many conversations about spiritual things. One question that he asked me was, "Do you know if you will go to heaven or hell when you die?" Of course I answered, "Heaven, I think." In my mind at the time I thought, "Don't all good people go to heaven? I'm good." But Isaiah 64:6 says, "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."

That big question weighted me down for some time and I knew I did not want to end up in hell - eternally separated from God. I honestly knew that I could never be good all of the time. The verses that the Lord used to bring me to salvation were Romans 3:10 and 23; Romans 6:23; and Romans 10:9-10, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." I knew I was a sinner and that I needed to confess my sins and repent. That is exactly what I did! It is something I knew I could not avoid. I knew if I rejected Jesus Christ, I would end up in hell.

The Lord has been good to me, teaching me truth, and how to live in this world (Titus 2:11-13). It is so wonderful to know that when I stand before God, I will have the righteousness of Jesus Christ as a covering over me and that I do not have to stand alone ("I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels" Isaiah 61:10.) Jesus Christ is my mediator (1 Timothy 2:5). His blood has cleansed me from all unrighteousness ("And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood" Revelation 1:5).

The Lord used my good friend, not only to bring me to salvation, but also to unite us in marriage a year and a half after I was saved. We have now been married for 19 years and the Lord has truly blessed us!

~Kat