Jubiliee Testimonies

This “old” Church of God hymn sums up my walk with the Lord.  He has blessed my life with so many wonderful experiences, family, and friends.  I don’t have that empty feeling that so many experience because Christ has filled it with His love, peace, and joy.  The hymn says, “I will shout I am free!  In my blessed loving Savior I have sweet victory!”  My Father is the Creator of all things, what have I to fear?  Another verse states, “I am safe and secure.”  Isn’t that what we all want?  Only God can give us that assurance.  The last stanza talks of the time of our final day on earth and an eternity with MY LORD and MY KING.  It says I will sing with holy angels.  That’s exactly what a musical person wants to hear…singing with the ultimate choir.

Since I first accepted Christ as my personal Savior, the meaning of the church has meant different things in my life. I was a teenager going to church with a friend to a little country church when the church had an evangelist come. He wasn’t a dynamic speaker by any means. A far cry from the ones you see on TV or in the movies!  There was just something about what he had to say that touched my heart like it never had been touched before. I couldn’t tell you his name the second after I left the altar.  One thing I did now, I did know the name of Jesus. At that time church was a building.  I didn’t equate it with people.

Heritage – going back to one’s roots; returning to the basics.

In the year of Jubilee, all the inherited land reverted back to the original family ownership. It was a protection for each tribe and it was a reminder that God had given each tribe a specific territory. If you sold it, the price was determined by how many years were left before Jubilee because you knew when Jubilee came and the land would go back to the original family.