testimony - life song

i'll now add my testimony on here - it was on a different site altogether - i figured it would be more efficient to be on here.
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I was born in Abbotsford, BC on September 3rd, 1987, I'm nineteen now but I'll explain to you what's happened so far in my life and what has led me to Christ.

I guess I'll start off with the fact that I've moved around a lot, born in Abbotsford then moved to Alberta for three years. Alberta wasn't too bad, cold, but it was nice to just play around and all that. I don't remember much of Alberta other than it was really cold there and I had some pretty good friends there, not many though. After I had finished grade one we moved back to Abbotsford again. At this point in my life my mom had asked both my cousin and I to accept Jesus into our hearts. I really don't remember much of what was said that day other than I had apparently become a Christian. 'Whatever that means' I had always said to myself. I went along with it for years. In grade three we moved to Surrey, from grade three to grade 7 I remember a lot. I was mean to my teachers; I swore a lot, I stole little stuff from people. Those five years of my life was me in open rebellion against God, but I didn't know that I had offended God in the way I was living my life. Graduation of elementary school came and went and we moved back to Abbotsford again where I attended what was thought to be a Christian high school. I met some pretty good people here but it seemed that I could fit in with any group of people. What troubled me was that I didn't have a chance to have friends much since we kept moving to different cities but this was our last move which I liked. Finished high school and was able to get my first year university at the same time as graduating high school so that was nice. All this time I had never really been close to God, I was baptized four years ago and I understand all that goes with that. I know I was a Christian at the time of me being baptized; I had an idea of what sin was and the whole view of the gospel. My folks and I read the bible every night, almost read through the bible three times together. I loved doing that every night.

Every summer since I was eight years old I went to a Christian summer camp for one week out of the summer. I loved it there; away from everybody I knew and all the fun we had and all the things we learned about God. Every year I would go back for that one week and I would get a 'spiritual high' with all the excitement for God, but then I'd go back home to my parents arguing and school and all that was there and that high would be gone. It was about five years ago that I had become born-again, but I did not know a whole lot about Christianity or God for that matter. I was baptized about four years ago and at that point in my life I understood what it all meant, but I still needed to learn more and more. Trials and tough times were ahead of me and I needed to trust in God, I thought I had been but I wasn't fully trusting in God. Anyways, I went through Camp Tulahead's leader training for three summers in a row and then in 2005 I had become a first time counselor. Being a counselor was a rush and quite the experience and got me thinking even more and more about God. I had so many questions but not really anybody to talk to but a friend who lives in Regina.

It was after that summer of being a camp counselor that I heard that my dad left our family. My mom's told me a lot of stuff of what my dad said he's done going way back since I was four years old. It came as a huge shock to me and it hurts my mom and it hurts me, but I know I can't let it affect me. Since my dad's left I've grown in the Lord but not because my dad has left - but because the Spirit has strengthened me through these hard times.

In the beginning of 2006 I was invited by a couple good friends of mine to join an evangelism class at their church. The content of that study changed my life and is still changing my life. I was brought before the holy judgment seat of Christ and my life was laid out before God. I now knew I had deeply offended God and that I was headed for hell; I was not a sheep in God's flock but I was a goat. I was a hypocrite at best and at heart. My heart was wicked and deceitful to me and I thought I was going to be with the Lord when I died. I know I had lied, stolen, taken the Lord's name in vain, put other things above God, and committed adultery by lusting, committed murder by hating people. All that I knew I had done and now I know that I have deeply offended God with my whole life. I got right with God and repented of what I've done my whole life that day and I've learned to continue to repent and believe. That day I truly became born-again - something I thought I was years ago but was mistaken.

Then March rolled along, literally. I was living in Abbotsford at the time of the accident. I really don't remember much of the crash but I'll try to explain what happened. I was driving my uncle's camaro that night. My friends and I just left Tim Horton's and we were driving away. I got a phone call and I got a little mad after I hung up the phone. Now this is where it gets fuzzy. I think I had stepped on the gas a bit and went around the corner; the car slid off the road and hit a large cement pipe culvert. The cement pipe was on its side when I hit it and after I hit it, the pipe was standing up. I was taken to the hospital with no real injuries except for a sore lower back and that was it. The car was totaled and wasn't able to be driven anymore. The Lord still wanted me alive because if I had hit that cement pipe a foot closer to the front of the car the gas tank would have blown up and I would have been hit straight on and I would be dead; and not writing this testimony. I praise the Lord for keeping me alive and giving me the realization that we don't know when we're going to die. I've realized that I have to live every day like today is the last.

Now I live in Kamloops, after figuring out that I had taken the wrong course for second year university.

edit:
I moved back to abby for a week or so then headed off to camp.
wasn't the greatest year. it was really good though, don't get me wrong.
seemed a little off though.
then I moved back to abbotsford again. hoping to move to kamloops sometime in the future.
but then... I met Jo. best thing that ever happened besides comin to Christ. meeting her i mean.
heck yes. that's a whole other post though.
stayed in abbotsford for a year. wasn't really focusing on God.
long story short (i'll expand later when i can type better without a cast)
I'm back in the k-loops - been going out with Jo for a little over a year now. room-mates with a swicked friend - struggling here n' there like always - but focusing more on God and what he's got me doin.
broke my wrist - so at the moment things are tight. for everything. it's crazy.

I believe the bible is the written and inspired Word of God, I believe in the Trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, three persons in one. I go through struggles and tough times every day but the Lord helps me through them. Everyday I'm learning I need to continue to read and pray and repent and believe in the God of Israel. The Lord has called me to Kamloops for reasons I don't fully know yet but I believe the Lord provides. He has kept me alive all these years and I have full assurance that my name is written in heaven.

Until that great and glorious day of the Lord - let us serve our King.

God bless.

p.s. there will obviously be stuff to add - i think i'll add stuff every six months...