My Testimony

Hi! My name is Pam and I was born and raised in Fairfield, CT. I was born into what many people would call a religious family – I would call it a faith based family. From the time I was born, I was taught that there was a God who created the heaven and the earth and that he sent his one and only Son into the world to die on a cross to save sinner. I describe my early childhood life as simple but adventurous. I enjoyed life in the context of a loving family and good friends. But at some point in our lives, we all struggle with the thoughts of sin and life after living on earth.

The first time that I remember struggling with these emotions was when I was four years old. My family had just return from church and my mom was making dinner. I was hungry and wanted something to eat prior to dinner but my mother had said no. When she had left the kitchen for a few minutes, I climbed up on to the counter and helped myself to some cookies from the cookie jar. Needless to say, I was caught. I remember very vividly my mom using the words that I had disobeyed her and had sinned.

That night my family went to the Sunday evening service and the pastor spoke on Heaven and & Hell. I remember vividly how he talked about Heaven and Hell and how both places where very real and very serious. He shared from Romans 3:10 says “There is no one righteous, not even one” and from Romans 3:23 which says “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Pastor continued to share that there was a price for our sin. He read from Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death.” It was at that very moment that I realized I was a sinner – it may sound simple but disobeying my mom and taking the cookie was sin and I knew it. The result of my sin meant death which also meant that I was going to Hell and I didn’t want that. Pastor however did not stop there – he continued to finish that verse which says “but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” What? What did that mean? Pastor continued by sharing another verse from Romans - Romans 5:8 says “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” It was at that moment that I realized that Christ did actually died on the cross of sinners but not just someone’s sin but for my sin. Even though my sin meant death and eternity in hell, God offered a gift through His son Jesus which meant forgiveness and eternity in heaven. Romans 10:9-10 says “That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.”

That night I said a simple prayer to the Lord. I told him that I was a sinner that I believed in his Son (Jesus Christ) and that he had died on the cross for my sin and I wanted his gift of eternal life" Romans 10:13 says “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

My life since that day has not been necessarily easy – but it has been an exciting journey full of ups and down. I still sin but one thing I can tell you is that I know without a shadow of a doubt that I will be spending eternity in heaven. Will you?

John 3:16-18 says “"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son (which is Jesus Christ), that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.