A TESTIMONY

I have been a christian for about 30 years now in which I have wasted most of that time using up God's Grace, by that I mean I went to church because I had to go and never did anything more than that. During my stint as a christian, I have had God directly speak to me only once. I admit He has spoken to me many times through other believers, but not like when He directly speaks to you--when you know it's Him. Here is my testimony:

Several years ago I was in the Air Force, and once every few months, we would do an exercise (where we pretend to go to war to evaluate how we perform our jobs under the threat of war). This one particular exercise, I was chosen to do this other job (for this story, the job doesn't matter). Well, during exercises, you work at least 12 hours and sometimes longer, plus you are not allowed to leave for lunch or anything (your at war). This one particular morning, I was running late so I didn't have time to eat breakfast, nor did I pack a lunch the night before, so I was looking at a long day of work, and nothing to eat. So on my way in to work I was grumbling and rhetorically asking God, what am I to do. As I got to work, there was a processing line everyone is supposed to go through which has many stations like a medical station, a chaplain station, and more. Well I stopped at the chaplain station and picked up a bible and an issue of Our Daily Bread, thought to myself what good will this do me today. Well I sat down where I was to wait to do my job, and I opened up the daily reading for that day out of the Daily Bread, and read Luke 12:22-30. Even after reading it, I still was grumbling to God about the horrible day ahead of me-when---a co-worker came over with a huge bag of sandwiches and snacks saying, There's plenty, so dig in. My heart sank.

God is good! Even though He has spoken to me directly once, I know He is always there and looking out for me. Thank you Lord Jesus!