Writing Your Story

How do you write your story? Or a better question, why would you want to? I remember wondering that when I filled out my application for Bible college and they asked for my testimony. It sort of made sense that they wanted to hear how I came to Christ but years later I learned that's not where your testimony or your story ends.

One of the first time I shared part of my story in a public setting was when I wrote an article. I wasn't really sure that it would do any good but then I got a comment from a total stranger thanking me for my article, for sharing my story. See even though it's your story other people can relate to it and God can help them through you. It's one of the most amazing phenomenons I've ever seen.

Let me see if I can explain this better. Say that you had a struggle with insecurity (something I think we can all relate to) maybe your problem got so bad that it really started affecting your life. You were constantly wondering what other people thought of you or if they were talking about you, maybe it affected your job, your relationship with your family, your friends, with your coworkers. But then through the grace of God something changed, you learned to be confident in the person God made you, confident in who you'd become and confident that Christ is still working in you. Through that experience your whole life changed but there's still that voice in the back of your head that says, "No one wants to hear my story. No one cares about that." But people do! Somewhere in the world there is someone who needs to hear that story, someone that your story of how Christ has changed your life will help, someone who will be reached and inspired by how God has changed you.

So why tell your story? Because God can use it.

How do you write your story, just by telling what's happened. If you're a Christian then you realize that you wouldn't be who you were without Christ. So telling your story should be about what He's done in your life.

In my next post I'll share my story, who knows, maybe someone else needs to hear it.