I Did What Was Most Convenient For Me.

I Did What Was Most Convenient For Me. I Did What Was Most Convenient For Me God Was On TheBack Burner.

My name is Kristin Pierfy, and this is my story.

On September 28, 1994, something wonderful happened in my life. I was 13 years old when I invited the Lord into my heart tostay. He has changed my life completely and I know it will never bethe same. I would like to share with you what He has donefor me and what He can do for you.

I grew up in Baptist churches. Every Sunday my parents would haveto nearly drag me to church. I hated it. The church services werevery boring and I didn’t understand them. I used to wish I was sickso I could stay home. Sunday school was not any better. I knew mostof the Bible stories by heart and they became very dull.

Many of the churches we attended believed in just having a personsay a prayer to save them. (Note: “Saved” is a biblical termreferring to the forgiveness of sins by God and the rescue of theperson from the power and penalty of that sin. This is God’srequirement for everlasting life.) My parents did not know anybetter, and when I was five years old, they asked me to say a prayer.Those words did not save me, even though, at the time, I thought theydid. The plan of salvation was not clear to me. Neither wasrepentance. All through the next several years, though, I thoughtthat that prayer had been my salvation.

At the beginning of July, 1994, my family switched churches. Somefriends had told my dad about the Lehigh Valley Baptist Church. Wedecided to try it. The first Sunday there, I knew there was somethingdifferent about the people. Everyone was so friendly and kind. Theyall seemed to be happy. The pastor, and many others, spoke of theirpersonal salvation experiences. They were nothing like mine.

Nobody “hoped” they were going to Heaven, or“thought” they should go to Heaven. They all “knew”they were going to Heaven. I definitely did not feel that assurance.I remember a time when my whole family was home and I was sitting inmy room. The house became silent. I got really scared thinking therapture had come and I was left behind. I was not positive that Iwould have gone with them. (Note: The Bible tells us that whenthe Lord is preparing to return to earth in the form of Jesus Christ,he will take all “saved” Christians off the earth to join him inHeaven “in the blink of an eye”. This is referred to as the time of”the rapture”.)

That summer, I was full of doubt about my salvation. One Sunday,visiting pastor, Joe Pellicone, preached a message entitled, “AreYou Ready?” One of the passages of scripture he used for hissermon was First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 14 and 17. “Forif we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also whichsleep in Jesus will God bring with him… Then we which are alive andremain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meetthe Lord in the air: and so we shall ever be with the Lord.”Those verses really got me thinking. At the end of the service, thepastor asked everyone in the church if they knew for sure where theywould spend eternity. I did not know! I had done absolutely zero forGod, so why should He want to let me into Heaven? I felt so guiltyabout my sin that I started to cry. I knew I needed to do something.

That night, I asked my mom if she would do a Bible study with me.She agreed, and we started the next day.

There were four lessons that took an hour each. We had our firstlesson on Monday. I began to feel God working in my heart. I am notsure when we had our second lesson, but I remember feeling the needto finish the study in case something happened to me! On Saturday, wehad our third lesson. By the time I had finished the lesson, I wassitting in my chair in tears. I needed to get to the last lessonright away. I was positive I was not saved, and I knew theconsequence would be Hell if something happened to me and I died.That consequence was clear to me after I read Ecclesiasties, chapter7, verse 20: “For there is none that doeth good and sinnot.” I also knew That God was willing to cleanse me from mysins and give me a brand new start. All I needed to do was call onHim, as it says in Romans, chapter 10, verse 13: “For whosoevershall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

God was not only willing to save me, but I knew it was arequirement for me to go to Heaven. Repentance isalso a requirement. Luke, chapter 13, verse 3, says, “I tell you,Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” Theproblem with the prayer I said at the age of five, was that I did notsee my sin as God did.

When my mom and I finished the last Bible study, I ran into myroom. I fell to my knees asking God to forgive me for my sins and tosave me from Hell. At a little after noon that day, the Lord gave mea new life in HIM. In Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 17, itsays: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.” Irealized that I now had a new life with which to serve God.

The next morning, I had a strong desire to get up early and go toChurch! When I got there, I told everyone I saw about my new life. Itold my youth pastor, my Sunday school teacher, and my friends. Ithink some of my friends were a little surprised, because I had donea good job of faking Christianity. While I had prayed, read the Bibleand even come to church, none of these things had anything to do withmy Salvation.

When I had said the prayer and professed to be a Christian when Iwas five years old, my life showed no evidence of change from the wayI had acted earlier. I did what was most convenient for me. God wason the back burner. Since that day in September, 1994, I have focusedmy desires and goals on God and what He wants for my life. I nowknow, without any doubt, that I am Heaven-bound.

You may be reading this and saying to yourself, “That’s okayfor her, but God doesn’t care about me because of all the wrong I’vedone.” But, God loves you. Here is what the Bible says in John,chapter 3, verse 16: “For God so loved the world, He gave hisonly begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should notperish, but have everlasting life.”

He loves you so much that He sent his only Son from Heaven toearth to die for you. No matter how much wrong you have done, God iswilling to forgive you and give you a fresh start also. He gave me anew start when I did not deserve it. Please, give God a chance inyour life. You will never regret it. He loves you.

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