***When I came back to Chicago nearly 3 years ago for my surgery, I started a blog as one place all family and friends could go to read updates on my health. I then realized it was also a way of promoting awareness. Shortly after that, I started a second blog, for the purpose of sharing my faith. As time went on, I became convicted about something.
It was wrong of me to separate the two, as my faith, Jesus, is the absolute reason for my strength in getting through this. I could not exclude Him from my health blog even if others suggested to do so. Thus, I started talking more about my faith on my main blog. Now, many times, it's more about Him than me, which is where I came up with the current title 'About Me, Not About Me'. This story may be about me, but really it's not about me, it's about Him. That old blog still sits out there no longer being used. So I decided over time I will begin to move those posts from there to here to have everything in one place.
In just beginning to read some of my first posts, I've realized the amount of work God has truly done in me. A lot of times we hate the journey and want to get to our next destination, but it is in that very journey that God molds you into who He created you to be. Enjoy each mile of your own journey and know that God is working through you if you let Him.***
Originally Posted: June 6, 2013
Miracle Testimony
This post is a slightly different one. What I'm about to share here will end up being another's story but ties in with my own. I am sharing this with her permission as I feel it is powerful and speaks volumes of God's saving grace, love and healing.
Last night, I was researching about spiritual gifts, pondering what mine is, when I felt a voice interrupting that thought process to tell me that my overall purpose is to call others to Christ. I know as Christians we should all be doing this, but this was instructed to me with such conviction, and I've felt this same calling before, almost like an epiphany of my true purpose in life. Furthermore, it was then said to me that right now I am supposed to call one specific person to Christ. one specific person and I was told who that person was. I kind of shrugged it off almost feeling like I made it up because it was too crazy of a thought to be of real intent. And I went to sleep.
Fast forward to this morning... I'm going through my morning as I normally do and eventually sign on to facebook. I received a message from a friend. She was recently in a car accident and I knew about the car accident. What I did not know about the car accident and what she proceeded to tell me out of the blue was this...
This message from her said that the seat belt for the seat she was in was broken... it was broken before the accident, it was broken after the accident.. it wouldn't lock into place. But she said at that moment of the accident, the seat belt worked. She said by all facts she technically shouldn't be alive right now... but that seat belt, the broken seat belt, for an instant was no longer broken and saved her life.
She is an atheist and I knew this already... but she proceeded to tell me that I am the only person she is sharing this part of the car accident with because she feels no one else would understand. She said she doesn't believe in God, but, in that moment... she wondered...
And how could you not? Praise God for such an amazing miracle and saving her life!
Now, this is the part that really brought chills to my spine, in a good way... At the moment of reading this message she sent me, I remembered my night last night, and my instruction of calling one specific person to Christ. Guess what? That person was her. Wow. Absolutely wow. I don't think I can portray how amazing this is through written word here. I was instructed to call her to Christ, knowing she is not a believer, and here I receive a message from her with this amazing story, almost feeling like it was an invitation to do just that- call her to Christ.
So I told her all this and invited her to open her heart to God. Now I don't know what will become of it and I am learning myself what it means to call others to Christ without being overbearing or pushy, so I need to be careful in how and what I do and say. But the joy I felt from sending this invitation is amazing. The joy I felt from this miracle of God through her is amazing. I know God is calling her, I know God wants her as one of His own and I pray she will open her heart to Him. And until then I will be here however I can for her, especially to be used as a vessel for God's love.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. Matthew 28:19-20
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