My Testimony to Discovering The Truth

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As you can tell by my name @hebrewhousewife, I consider myself a Hebrew. I believe that Yeshua/Jesus died to pay the punishment of our sins, and we are to turn back to our Father’s ways by following His laws in the Torah. I know I’ve written pieces of my testimony here and there, but I thought I’d write it all out in one spot. It’s nothing grand and spectacular, but this is how it happened. So here it is. 

My faith background

Both of my parents were raised Catholic, so it only makes sense that I was raised Catholic as well. My parents pretty much left it up to Sunday school/religion classes on Wednesdays to teach me everything I needed to know about God. My faith turned into one of following all the rules and memorize all these prayers and whatnot. God was basically a distant mystery to me; there definitely wasn’t any personal relationship there. 

Something changed

At age 17, I turned to Google to answer my relationship questions. I was directed to a women’s Christian ministry website. It was this website that revealed to me who God really was, and after reading article after article, I started to see how spiritually starved I was. I started to develop a relationship with God. 

A couple years later, I found a non-denominational preacher on the radio. I started listening to him almost every day. A year later, I listened to him preach about salvation. It was during that sermon, I realized I was focusing on my relationship with God, but had neglected Christ. I decided then, that I needed to accept Christ as my savior, and I said the “sinner’s prayer”. 

I started to question

A few years later, after my husband and I got married, we were still attending Catholic Church. I’m not sure why, but the pressure to baptize my son pushed me to question my faith. Looking back, I wonder if my husband maybe had something to do with it. He’s into politics, and since we started dating, I started to see that there was an agenda behind the things I learned in school. Anyways, I really started to dig in to find the truth behind baptism. All this questioning led me to discover all the lies in Catholic Church. I no longer wanted  be apart of that anymore. There was a non-denominational church in town that a couple people we knew went to. So we tried it out. I loved it! This was the church we were meant to be at. 

 My world just took a 180

Everything was going great! We were really settling in to this church. We were friends with everyone, we we’re getting involved, and we became members. I even asked to be baptized. It was a few weeks before my baptism that things got interesting. 

I noticed a YouTube video about flat earth. I thought to myself, “How on earth could anyone believe the earth is flat?” Well, the questioning side of me got the better of me, so I decided to look into it. (Notice: This post is not about whether or not the earth is flat, so please refrain from commenting on this topic.) After going down that rabbit trail, I started to wonder if this was seriously true. If it was, everything I had ever known was a lie. I will admit, it consumed me for a little while, and even frustrated me to the point of praying out to God. The morning of my baptism, I prayed to God asking Him to show me the truth, whatever that truth is. I couldn’t shake the feeling there was a lie out there I was believing and I wanted it to be revealed to me. God was quick to answer that prayer.

The next night, I was laying in bed watching YouTube again. No idea why, but I wanted to find out what speaking in tongues was all about. I stumbled on a video by Lex Meyer. I don’t remember the sequence of videos I watched after that, but what I do remember was thinking, “Oh boy, my church doesn’t have it right either.” I spent that whole week diving into relearning everything I had ever learned/knew about my faith up to this point. I was already looking into how to keep the Sabbath a couple weeks prior, but now I was finding out that all of God’s law still applied to us today. Feeling overwhelmed was an understatement! After some studying, I had to show my husband the documentary “The Way”. He said the movie confirmed some questions/suspicions he had always had. He initially jumped on board (with some things) but he is continually growing too.

Where I’m at today

This all happened last September, so I’m still a baby in all this. I celebrated the fall feasts for the first time, and we’re looking forward to celebrating the spring feasts soon. We don’t attend the church anymore, and have yet to find like-minded people in our area. I’m not too worried though. I know we’re not alone in this, and maybe one day, the Father will lead us to others to fellowship with. For now, we are enjoying relearning the Truth and obeying our Father. 

I hope you enjoyed reading my testimony to discovering the Truth. I also hope this encourages others to share their story, as I would love to learn how others came to The Way as well. I’m going to use the tag #thewaytruthandlife and you can too, so we can all find these testimonies in one spot. If you’ve already written about your testimony, you could supply a link in the comments.

Shalom!