Hi, and welcome to Christianity.com. My name is Sarah Hammerker. I write Romantic Suspense novels, and I'm a wife, a mother of four, and a foster mom, and I am a Christian. I've been blessed to have been a Christian most of my life.
I remember when I was four years old, I was on a walk with my mom, and she was telling me she had recently become a Christian as well, and she was telling me about Jesus as she often did on our walks, and I just remember, and I can even point to the place in the road, in my old neighborhood where I grew up, where I was just struck by the fact that I was a sinner, that I had done things that made Jesus sad. In my four-year-old mind, that was kind of how I remember thinking about that, that my sins, that I sinned, that I did things that weren't right, and that I needed a Savior. I remember that so clearly, how God reached down and brought me to himself, even at age four.
Now, of course, at that age, I didn't understand fully what it meant to be a Christian, but that was the beginning of my walk with Christ, and over the years, I kept thinking, I kept growing, I kept learning, I kept loving Jesus, and it's such a precious thing to me to know that I really can't remember a time when I didn't love Jesus. I didn't really remember a time when I didn't pray to God for the blessings He's given me, for the things that I needed help with, to overcome some of the besetting sins in my own life. And I have been so grateful for that.
I'm thrilled that my own children have that experience as well, that they were believers early in their lives, too. And one verse that really has stuck with me, that I memorized ages ago, was Psalm 1914, which the King James Version says, "...let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer." And one of the reasons that has been a bit of a life verse for me is that that's something that comes to my mind when my tongue is getting away from me. I am one of those people who, unfortunately, can be a little sarcastic.
Maybe not unfortunately, but I can find that I can say things and do things that aren't pleasing to God. And this is a verse that I pray almost every day, sometimes in the morning to help me get through the day, sometimes sporadically throughout the day. But this verse keeps coming to mind to help me to have let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to God, because that's really what I pray.
And I pray that for you as well. And I'm so glad I was able to share with you why I am a Christian. And I hope that you will be blessed today and visit Christianity.com regularly, because God's not finished with our story.
Amen.
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