My personal testimony

I am glad I have eternal life, because God has always been there to protect and provide for me since my earliest memory. God has blessed me through many times of uncertainty and continues to be there with me in the good times and the bad. When i was about the age of Six, I received Christ as my Lord and savior, and rededicated my life at the age of eighteen when I was baptized.

In 2021 I was attached to the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and in the process of getting out of the Navy due to high year tenure. Due operational commitment and the whole Covid pandemic, I found myself in a very lonely, high stress environment with no time or ability to secure a job after the military, not to mention that I was also having suicidal thoughts from everything that had happened and was happening. I found that the Bible was the only form of peace I had in all of it. During those two seven month spans of isolation from the rest of the world, God was building up my faith and sustaining me. I believe it was God that gave me the idea to put all my negative thoughts into writing and God also gave me the courage to seek help from a counselor on the ship. The journal came in handy because I couldn’t verbally say why I wanted to take my own life but wanted them to know my story. After I handed the counselor my journal and they read the contents, I felt a massive weight that had been plaguing me for a long time get lifted off of my shoulders because now another living person knew what I kept bottled inside for so long. When I finally got back home, I didn’t have a job for about a month and things were starting to look grim. We were looking at possibly losing our house and all our possessions because of all of this. I remember telling my wife that we were going to be okay and that God was going to take care of us. Sure enough, I applied to Tesla and after an enthusiastic interview, was hired that very day. I actually turned down another company that contacted me about working for them. I now had a source of income and a newfound appreciation of life thanks to God.

The moral of the story is we must not overlook the power of prayer and trusting in the one who created all things and provides for all of his creation. I know I have eternal life because God says so in his living word and I hold on to his promises. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:” ??Ephesians? ?2?:?8? ?KJV??