Hello, My name is Thomas Willoughby and I attend the University of Pittsburgh and here is how I came to trust Christ as my Lord and Savior.
Well, let me start by just saying that I grew up in the Church. My parents had always dragged me to Church every Sunday and I knew about as much as the average person does about the Bible. I really never paid attention to God. I knew he was there and that was about it. I never really connected with the whole religious thing, it seemed so boring and confining(all those rules and stuff). I think alot of people get this same impression, but let me tell you I was wrong. I just figured that because I was better than most people in the way I acted that I was OK in God's book.
The problem is that this is not the way God works, I have heard it said that, ""God does not grade on a curve.""
Well, back to how i was saved. I moved to Pittsburgh to go to school and as I said earlier I had all these ideas about my faith. I was religious I told myself. Then, one of my friends asked me, ""If you were to die today would you know that you were going to heaven?"" I just didn't know. It was after hours of reflection that I realized that I was not OK in God's book. I was a sinner and I needed saved. How does one become saved? It is not by being better that the average person.
There is only one way and that way is Jesus Christ. He died for all of our sins and only through him can we truely be saved from our sin. I prayed that night and for the first time in 19 years, I felt a peace that I had never known before. I could not believe what had just happened to me, I was filled with the love of Jesus and I was amazed because he still saved me after I had ignored and not cared about him and what he did for me for 19 years of my life. I knew my life before that night was wasted and I was ready to turn my life of to something new, something amazing, something wonderful, something true.
This is something that everyone can have.
If you would like to talk more about this or about anything at all, drop me an e-mail at tdw19@pitt.edu. Thanks for taking the time to read this.
