Shawna Cothran
Being raised in a Christian home, life was good. My family was faithful in attending our small baptist church in Michigan. It was there that I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart at the age of five. My parents even wrote it down in a “school days” book , but the problem was that I never remembered that experience. Growing up, I never did drugs or drank because I didn’t want to disappoint my parents. Yet I still remember bad choices in other areas which led to guilt. Each time I felt this guilt, I’d go back to the “school days” book with my salvation date and it seemed to ease my mind.
After I was married, my husband and I immediately got involved in church and I joined the choir. One night our choir was singing at a Bailey Smith Crusade and his message that night was on “The Wheat and the Tares”. He spoke of how a person can talk, act and look like a Christian and still be lost. Also, how a person can have a head knowledge but not a heart knowledge. It was then that I realized that was my life. The Holy Spirit convicted my heart that night and on July 26, 1987, I walked down from the choir onto the Easley High School football field and accepted Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.
Today Jesus Christ is my Savior and Lord of my life. He is everything to me and without Him, I am nothing. He has been my Counselor in many decisions, my Sheild during difficult times, my Friend when lonely and so much more. I am still singing in a choir but He has put a new song in my heart.
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