A testament of a testimony

A friend encouraged me last night after the sharing of my testimony, that there is power when His words are shared and that my testimony becomes more powerful when shared more often. She also shared there is a verse in Revelation that speaks of this...I have only come across Revelation 1:1-3, "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2who testifies to everything he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. 3Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near."

Well, I was definitely blessed in the afterword of sharing my testimony as I do feel others were also blessed in the expression of their gratitude and encouragement toward what was shared. God is good. It was a freeing moment and I went on to describe that feeling, like a beauty that was all of a sudden revealed, a purity that came over my skin and a cleansing over my feet. Up til that point of sharing, I knew that I was going to feel attacked as the weeks previous I had a nightmare of sharing my testimony. In that nightmare I was tormented for my past and ridiculed of the ways in which I erred. So I prayed for my "self" to be removed from my story...and it was. Afterward i did not feel claim to the "self" for which I was claimed for so many years. Even though I have felt His forgiveness and grace in my life, I still struggled with certain components of my self, and not liking those components. This is not to say I will be stretched in the future, this is to say that I felt washed last night, washed as white as snow. I had the beauty of God washed over my skin and for once I truly felt a glow with His love. It was an experience, an experience I would have never been able to feel if it weren't for the steadfast and fervent prayer from the leadership team and friends alike.

In my many years of feeling unpretty in this world, God made me feel beautiful last night. He allowed me to see the beauty within my heart-all of which He has cultivated over the years. Oh my heart is far from that of Christ's but I want to claim that beauty and learn how to be more and more like Him.

"He has made everything beautiful in it's time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end," Ecclesiastes 3:11

-S