From Fear to Certainty: How I Came to Know I Belong to Christ
It’s an incredible thing to be able to write this with absolute certainty: I KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, that if I were to take my last breath at this very moment, I would be standing face-to-face with my Lord and Savior. If you are a believer—someone who has truly trusted in Jesus Christ—this might sound like a “gimme.” Of course you’d go to Heaven, right? But I am here to tell you that for many years of my life, I did not have that assurance. Instead of the peace that passes understanding, I lived in a constant state of fear and confusion, caught in the web of false doctrines. My story starts very young, between the ages of 4 and 6, when my mother regularly hosted the “Watchtower ladies” from the Jehovah’s Witnesses Kingdom Hall. Even at that tender age, I was starving for truth. I desperately wanted to hear about Jesus and Heaven. Instead, what I learned from them was devastating. They taught that if I died and wasn't part of the specific 144,000 elite, that was it. I had...