My God Story

Before I received eternal life I had terrible problems with anger and my temper. I also worried about death and if I was good enough to go to heaven.

I can remember that the fears of death really came on at night while I was in bed. Being raised Catholic, I would pray an Our Father and a Hail Mary. These might have helped me eventually go to sleep, but the fears only continued, with a dread that weighed me down, pressing me into the bed.

In my early 20s, I was working a security job that had a lot of dead time. Since I loved to read, I would take a lot of books with me. One day I decided to take a Bible to work with me to read. It was one that my wife had that was the exact same one as the family Bible we had in our home as a kid. I started just by looking at the pictures and reading the captions. Soon I was reading paragraphs, then chapters, then books. The more I read, the more I wanted to read. In time, I received eternal life, and my life immediately changed...

Now that I have eternal life, the fears of death and eternity are gone and my temper is not the issue it once was. In fact, nothing is as it once was. Now I have joy and peace with God and can rightfully say that I know Him.

I no longer laid up in bed worrying what might become of me when I died. I no longer feared that my past would find me out. I no longer felt the beating of my heart as I tried to will myself to sleep. Now there was peace, and unlike any peace I'd ever known, for it was not determined by circumstances, but instead rose from deep within me.

I am confident that I have eternal life because I have confidence in my Savior. Jesus didn't just die for the world's sins, He died for mine. He knows me by name, and I know Him. And my only regret in life is that I didn't know this truth sooner.