My Assurance

What assurance do I have that Jehovah's Witnesses have the whole truth? For me it is the logic of the message from Genesis to Revelations. Faith is described as "assured'. It suggests an experience that it is true, not just a credulity in just any religious message. God asks us to "Taste and see that Jehovah is good, O all you people; Happy is the able-bodied man that takes refuge in him." We are also required to worship God with our "power of reason" or "thinking ability". It would take me years to describe all the things that are extremely logical in the Christian message of salvation through Jesus' sacrifice. But I think Paul said it best throughout the letters to the Romans and to the Hebrews.

Not only this, but in taking up the offer to "taste and see", I know that God has been with me even during times in the past when I was not with him. He was there counseling me and comforting me through depression.

When I first came into contact with the truth, I did not know God. I had been studying religions for some time, and had many books from most of the world's major religions, but I prayed to God and asked that he show me the truth and who had it, then Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door the next day. I did not accept their word immediately, though. It took a year and nine months of intense study ending with a demon attack in my bedroom to accept that I needed to be baptized as one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Since then I three times had a crisis of faith, not due to the message, but due to my own failings, and each time I wanted to come back I prayed to Jehovah to make my way sure, and all three times, even four, he sent Jehovah's Witnesses to my door the next day without me mentioning my desire to return to anyone.

This last time, he sent brothers not once, but twice. Let me explain first that he had answered a prayer a couple of weeks before that shook me and woke me up from my inactivity. So I studied and when I was ready, I prayed for return and that's when they came the next day.

The first time I prayed, they came to my door, and I gave them my number to call and come pick me up for the meeting, but they never did (it's not often that they forget something like that), and then I prayed again on the day I missed the meeting for Jehovah to help me, and again the next day another pair, sisters, unaware of the first pair, showed up. They too took my number and said they would send someone to pick me up, but again no one showed.

So I asked Jehovah to make known to me what it was he needed from me. Not five minutes after that prayer, my ex-wife, also one of Jehovah's Witnesses, called. I hadn't talked to her in a year and 3 months and she was calling out of the blue at the right time. We made amends in that call to be friends and then it hit me. Jehovah wanted two things from me: first, he didn't want me returning to that particular congregation, because I had never felt welcomed there, but he wanted me to go to the other congregation meeting at the same kingdom hall. And second, he wanted to teach me endurance, as this was my weakness, the thing that took me away so many times.

But that's not the end of it. The other week, I was getting ready to take a false step that could have taken me in an irrevocable direction, and just as I was about to commit myself to it, my original Bible study teacher, my father in the faith, called me. I hadn't spoken to him in six months. And just by hearing his voice, I was snapped back.

So, not once, not twice, not three times, but seven times Jehovah stretched out his hand to me so that it was undeniable. When you have such a direct and open relationship with God, there's no way that you can ignore him.

Psalms 34:8; Hebrews 11:1; Romans 12:1

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