Do you know what the word “testimony” means? Perhaps it is rather a big word, but maybe this story will help explain it.
Sometimes when we speak to a boy or a girl about the Lord Jesus, or about being saved, they are suddenly very quiet. They are filled with talk and laughter most of the time, but when it comes to the question of salvation, they have little or nothing to say. Perhaps they say a quiet “yes” if you ask if they are saved, and you have the feeling that they wish you would go away. But with Frank, it was very different. Frank loved to talk about the Lord Jesus, and was happy to tell us that the Lord Jesus had saved him. One day, just as Sunday school was about to close, Frank stood up in his class, and began to speak so that all could hear. This was his “testimony.”
“I am afraid quite a few of the boys and girls here are not saved, and perhaps if I tell you what Jesus has done for me, it might help you.
“I was saved when I was ten years old. My father and mother are both Christians, and I have heard the way of salvation since I was very little, but it was only when I saw my need of a Saviour that I really came to Jesus. One night at the gospel meeting, we sang a hymn beginning, ‘There is a fountain.’ I had often sung it before, and was singing it again without thinng, until we came to the chorus,
‘I do believe, I will believe
That Jesus died for me,
That on the cross He shed His blood,
From sin to set me free.’
“When I sang that chorus I saw for the first time that Jesus had died for me—my own self — and that I, bieving on Him, was saved. I just made it my very own and was saved right then and there.”
Wasn’t that a wonderful testimony! flow good to know that Jesus died for me — my own self! Can you truthfully join in singing,
“I do believe, I will believe
That Jesus died for me?”
ML 03/04/1956