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My testimony

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My testimony isn't so much a success story as it is an ongoing story of faith. I have not "arrived" anywhere, in any sense of the word. All of the dreams I ever had of success, and the like, have come to naught. Yet my testimony is strong and powerful and will, I believe, inspire others to stay the course with God. Through loss, suffering, paying a high cost to obey the Lord, obstacles, attacks, and the like, I remained true to the Lord.  This is not just something.  It is everything. I believe there are Christians out there who have given up on God because of how their lives turned out.  God didn't do what they wanted, so they walked away. But God isn't there as a genie.  He is there as God.  He is the One we are to look to and ask Him what He wants from us.   If He doesn't "make all our dreams come true," what of it?  Maybe those dreams would have destroyed us.  Maybe those dreams would have taken us farther from Him instead of closer. You see, He