Testimonies should be up to date, not what happened 20,30,40 years ago, so I will
be brief on the historical details.
I was brought up in Kirkdale Baptist Tabernacle, and I thank God for Christian parents
and grandparents – but that didn’t make me a Christian. We had a new minister from
Scotland and it was through his sound preaching that in November 1933, when I was
still at school, that I asked the Lord Jesus Christ into my life, and came to Him
for cleansing.
But forgiveness of sin isn’t a “one-off”, I go on sinning in the things I do, say,
and think, and God in His mercy goes on forgiving me. Someday I shall stand before
the Holy God spotless because of what Jesus did for me. As the old hymn puts it –
“Bold shall I stand in that great day, for who ought to my charge shall lay? Fully
absolved through Thee I am, from sin and fear, from guilt and shame.”
Not only does God go on forgiving me but He has guided me all these years through
life’s experiences, such as a broken engagement 10 weeks before the wedding; through
giving up work at 53 to look after my parents; and through breast cancer in 1988.
He has been with me too in my church life, guiding me to the church He would have
me attend. I have played the organ in many of the churches where I have been a member
and I am still playing in the services at Dovecot Evangelical Church where I now
go.
