If I surveyed each of you, I would find a lot of testimonies of how God changed your life – some large, some small. Perhaps yours would start out like, “I was spiritually oppressed … “, “I was at the brink of death …”, “I was an angry and bitter person …”, “My marriage was at the end of its rope …”, “I was doing drugs …”, “I struggled with gender identity …”, “Pornography consumed my mind …”, or “I was a liar ….” But for those of you who have had your life changed by God, this is only the start of your testimony. There are two words that usually come after each of these statements and they are two of the most beautiful words in the language:
“. . . But God.”
Pause.
If you are still breathing, your testimony is still in the making. That means we all have “starts of testimonies” that still need to be turned over to God – I’m talking to everyone here. When we turn to God, we open ourselves to a Better Solution that brings the words “but God” into our testimony once again.
Amen.