Lindy's Heart

God loves the little children and how He showed this to me at a very young age. At age 7 ½, there was a local show sponsored by American Bible Society. “Uncle Win” told me about God, how much He loved me and cared about me. I wrote to the ABS and was visited shortly after by two people from ABS, who presented me with the gospel of Jesus Christ, the plan of salvation and a bible.

I prayed the sinners’ prayer and began to realize in the midst of tumult (my parents were battling, soon to separate, leaving my dad to raise me), God loved me and He would be with me.

I would like to say that Jesus reigned on the throne of my life but He didn’t. I can say in all the sad, silly, horrible things that I did do, I knew someone was watching me and I never felt comfortable doing wrong.

My dad was not one to go to church but he knew that his children must so we were sent off every week to Sunday school and church. I learned about Jesus and His life but I didn’t hear about salvation and what follows after that. I am thankful, though, for the teachings as they helped me later to study the bible easier, now what I had learned as a child/youth, became life to me, as I did finally give my life to Jesus 22 years later.

It was a very desperate and lonely time when I finally found I really needed Jesus in my life and to be Lord of all. So as a single parent with three small children, I called out and asked Jesus to be my Lord as well as my Savior. Jesus filled that void of loneliness and gave me hope to go on. He showed me a love and continues to show me love - a love that no man could duplicate. He is my life and I desire to serve Him fully and completely. He is my Hope and my Peace. He gives me Joy when times seem gloomy. My heart's desire is to be ALL He wants me to be.

I have times when I have failed my Father and wonder if He will still love me. A pastor taught me to remember one very important fact. That fact is that God does not stop loving me. He is always there for me. It is me that turns from Him. He waits with loving arms, outstretched, to welcome me back. He sets me on my feet and says, "My child, do not look back. Look forward and go on. Continue to do the work that I have given you to do for me."

The devil wants me to look back, to ponder on the past mistakes I have made, to feel there is no hope of getting it right. On my own, I cannot do it but with JESUS – ALL things are possible. When I am weak then is He (Jesus) strong in me!

I used to worry about what people might say about the wrong things that I have done but the Lord has shown me that if they are truly my brother or sister in the Lord, they will rejoice with the angels that I have repented; that I have come back to where I should be, and they will encourage me to continue on in my walk. I am also to do the same to any one of my brothers or sisters that fall and try to get back on track. My Father wants me to learn about His forgiveness and His unconditional love, and to practice it in my life.

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