I am the oldest of four children and was raised in the Lutheran church. My grandparents and extended family all went to church wherever they lived. We prayed before meals and before going to sleep at night. I got good doctrine from the churches I was in, but there was no mention of a personal relationship with the living God and what that might look like, except maybe lived out by one of my Sunday School teachers and my grandpa. I felt the Holy Spirit drawing me during catechism for confirmation at age 14, because we were actually studying Scripture every day for weeks. I didn’t know what to do with this and followed worldly ways until I was 22 and in college. I was depressed, missing the only One Who could fill the empty place in my heart.
I knew the Bible was the answer, and got out my King James Bible one night and read Mt.6:25-34 and decided to follow Jesus. I have been walking with Him ever since. The road hasn’t always been easy. I have gone to the depths at times. But truly, as Corrie ten Boom said, “There is no pit so deep, that He is not deeper still.” There is an inner joy of Jesus within, no matter what the outer circumstances are. The LORD has never failed or forsaken me over all these years and I know He never will. Won’t you trust in Him too?