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Nanopants
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Hopefully, we all have testimonies. I have one, but it's confusing. I believe with all my heart that it is a product of the Lord's work in my life, and I believe I have seen scripture which validates this, but unfortunately it has led me into debates with people who want to say that I'm interpreting the scriptures incorrectly.
I want to share what I've been through to see what others think on how it may line up with what we can expect in life as believers. I'll go into my own interpretation later after I get a few responses.
So here's my story...
I grew up in two households because my parents divorced when I was 3 years old. Unfortunately for me, my father married a women who was not right in the head. Over the years she became cruel, even toward her own children, as there were multiple instances of physical abuse (and I don't mean spankings). One other unfortunate thing was that my father became blind to it. His attitude was always that I just need to toughen up and learn how to deal with people like her. Sadly, the situation led me down a path of rebellion and destruction by the time I was a young teenager.
So I fell away from my faith (I was raised Christian to no avail) and into agnosticism for a few years. Years later when I was 24 and on my own the Lord got a hold on me and brought me back. I was led to return to my father's house, for reasons that were not quite clear to me at that time. So I stayed with him while I geared myself to go to college and make something out of my life, but during the short time that I was living with him again I ran into inevitable conflict with my step mother.
In the time that I was gone, she had apparently manipulated herself into a position of authority and control over my father, and because I would always listen to him first, my presence there became a challenge to her. Skipping some unnecessary detail here, I dealt as best as I could with her false accusations and manipulative strategies to demonize me until eventually I ran into a situation where she came at me with a weapon and threatened me with bodily harm.
At that moment I knew what I had to do. In the heat of the moment it suddenly became clear to me that I needed to submit myself to God's will, and not hers. I just stood there, giving her permission to do it without saying a word, and I would not comply with anything she said until my father had said otherwise. She looked like she blew a gasket but eventually backed down.
Now I believe that the only way I could have pulled this off is by being taught by God, and through wisdom which He gave me at that moment. The reason why I know this is that I know myself, and prior to that point I had always responded naturally through pain and anger.
Interestingly enough, she was carted away by police that evening, at no request of my own, and it didn't stop there. I was not living in my father's house at this point but she continued with her campaign to discredit me behind my back, and she was carted away by authorities on multiple occasions (I don't know the specifics on each occasion since I was not there). Eventually my father gained enough freedom that he decided to help me make it through college.
Now some people try to tell me that God does not judge people in this life, but everything I know about God through my own personal walk speaks differently. So I'm curious as to how people may think this happening lines up with correct doctrine.
I want to share what I've been through to see what others think on how it may line up with what we can expect in life as believers. I'll go into my own interpretation later after I get a few responses.
So here's my story...
I grew up in two households because my parents divorced when I was 3 years old. Unfortunately for me, my father married a women who was not right in the head. Over the years she became cruel, even toward her own children, as there were multiple instances of physical abuse (and I don't mean spankings). One other unfortunate thing was that my father became blind to it. His attitude was always that I just need to toughen up and learn how to deal with people like her. Sadly, the situation led me down a path of rebellion and destruction by the time I was a young teenager.
So I fell away from my faith (I was raised Christian to no avail) and into agnosticism for a few years. Years later when I was 24 and on my own the Lord got a hold on me and brought me back. I was led to return to my father's house, for reasons that were not quite clear to me at that time. So I stayed with him while I geared myself to go to college and make something out of my life, but during the short time that I was living with him again I ran into inevitable conflict with my step mother.
In the time that I was gone, she had apparently manipulated herself into a position of authority and control over my father, and because I would always listen to him first, my presence there became a challenge to her. Skipping some unnecessary detail here, I dealt as best as I could with her false accusations and manipulative strategies to demonize me until eventually I ran into a situation where she came at me with a weapon and threatened me with bodily harm.
At that moment I knew what I had to do. In the heat of the moment it suddenly became clear to me that I needed to submit myself to God's will, and not hers. I just stood there, giving her permission to do it without saying a word, and I would not comply with anything she said until my father had said otherwise. She looked like she blew a gasket but eventually backed down.
Now I believe that the only way I could have pulled this off is by being taught by God, and through wisdom which He gave me at that moment. The reason why I know this is that I know myself, and prior to that point I had always responded naturally through pain and anger.
Interestingly enough, she was carted away by police that evening, at no request of my own, and it didn't stop there. I was not living in my father's house at this point but she continued with her campaign to discredit me behind my back, and she was carted away by authorities on multiple occasions (I don't know the specifics on each occasion since I was not there). Eventually my father gained enough freedom that he decided to help me make it through college.
Now some people try to tell me that God does not judge people in this life, but everything I know about God through my own personal walk speaks differently. So I'm curious as to how people may think this happening lines up with correct doctrine.
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