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My TestimonyMy beginning to meet with the local church is one of God’s sovereignty over all situations. In the late 1980s, someone I had gone to elementary school with stopped me on a college campus and asked me if I was George. I hadn’t remembered her, as she was several grades behind me. She asked me if I knew the Lord, and it was then that He as the Spirit came into my spirit (John 3:6). I then began attending a small nondenominational church that disbanded several years later. It was as if the Lord was bringing me out of Egypt (as He did for the children of Israel in the Old Testament), yet for years I was wandering in the wilderness (as they did), looking for a church that would meet my needs. Eventually I stopped searching for a church that I felt comfortable in and had almost given up on the Lord. In fact, Ecclesiastes 7:28 speaks of seeking, but not finding that which was being searched for. But alas, all that time, the Lord was sovereign over my situation and He was removing the worldliness in my seeking so that I could be open to Him. One day, I believe, the Lord felt it was time for me to be brought the local church. It was the start of a new semester at California State University, Long Beach and I had just started early morning classes, something which I dreaded. Between my morning and afternoon classes I intended to go to a student lounge, where I hoped to take a nap for awhile on one of the couches. Unbeknownst to me, there was a meeting adjacent to the couch area for Christians on Campus, younger believers in the local church some who were students and some who were serving the Lord full-time. Needless to say, I did not nap that morning. Psalms 132:4-5 says “I will allow no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids, till I find a place for the Lord.” Praise Him, for He found a place for me and brought me into a rest that I have been in ever since. Matthew 11:28 says “Come to Me all who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest.” As time went on I tasted and saw that the Lord is good and I started attending meetings on campus (1 Peter 2:3). Several months later I started attending Friday evening meetings. Again, I tasted and saw that the Lord is good. After another several months, I began attending the Lord’s Day meetings and saw in the believers a love for the Lord that touched me deeply. After meeting in the local church for over a year and a half, I moved to Mississippi to attend Mississippi State University and remain thereafter. Prior to moving to Brandon, Mississippi, I had visited the preceding summer. I had been meeting in the local church approximately six months at that time and it was then that I learned the oneness of the body. I Corinthians 12:12 says “For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.” In the local church I can go to any state or nation and the believers there will be speaking one thing, Christ. It is a wonderful testimony to I Corinthians 10:17 that states we are many, yet one body. So it is with the church in Brandon, Mississippi. Fellowshipping with the believers in Brandon/Jackson has been a true blessing. I am thankful that the Lord has brought me here. George Schmaus | Back to List |
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