Living Waters Fellowship

Jonathan Smith

I don’t remember all too much about my life before I accepted Christ’s death on the cross for me. I do know that I was able to recognize that I had done things that were contrary to God’s standard of holiness, and therefore fit into the category of Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”

I was blessed to grow up in a home filled with love for God and for one another. My parents took me to the church that my grandparents also went to, and I had heard the gospel explained several times in Sunday school and at home from my parents.

Then one day it hit me that I needed to accept Christ’s free gift for myself. So I went into my room and knelt in the corner on my bed and told God that I believed that Jesus is God who came down to earth, became a man, never sinned, died on a cross (in my place), was buried, and rose again, and I asked God to save me.

You could say that I have been a good kid externally, but I haven’t always been motivated by the right reasons. It was to do what was expected of me or because I would look better or to have things just go the right way but not because I loved God. I have been trying to seek after God wholeheartedly, but it’s not easy to live totally for Christ. I will keep reading God’s Word, chewing on the living word, Jesus Christ. John 6:57 – As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me.