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Testimonies Part 3: Boring Testimony Please!

My friend and fellow volunteer teacher, Mrs. Lawrence is a doll. She was telling me the other day about a retreat she attended in which a lady mentioned that she wanted all her children to have boring testimonies. She explained that boring meant that they don't leave God to have an adventure in the world but they spend their whole life serving God. Isn't that what we all want for our children? Safe lives?

Let me not downplay the testimony of someone who never dabbled in worldliness or was enslaved to sin. It's not boring. Being used by God is a good thing. We're so warped and twisted that we think the world has something better to offer. So we go out in the world, waiting for God's "big reveal" and then if he does, we devote the rest of our life to Him. But if we don't get that "big reveal"? Then our life would be a testimony to the power of the Devil.

Personally, I like working for God and to know I'm in His will. It's assuring and it's not concerning. So it's not really a boring testimony. It's an adventure to do things that please God and dangerous to do things that please the devil. What is deemed as boring in the eyes of the world is actually not boring. It's a life completely devoted and dependent on God and full of adventure that I haven't even tapped into yet. So give me a boring testimony please!

Next Post: Malcolm X (that might be a series in itself)

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