While being interviewed for a podcast recently, I was asked to share my testimony. As usual, I felt an odd sense of shyness. My testimony is boring—so boring, I sometimes wonder if anyone even believes it.
I was three years old in the back of my mom’s car.
“Mom, what’s a Christian?” I asked.
She explained that a Christian was a person who acknowledged that he or she was a sinner in need of a savior, and who trusted in Jesus for this salvation. Although young, I understood. Again, sometimes I wonder if people believe me. But the gospel is simple enough to comprehend early and rich enough to contemplate endlessly. I prayed, unprompted, and put my trust in Christ. Then, I marched joyfully into the house and announced to my dad, “I’m a Christian now, just like you and mommy!”
I know many pray the sinner’s prayer as children, and it can be simply rote, but from that moment, I have known no other life than that of one beloved by Christ. This is not of my doing; he was gracious enough to capture my heart early and to hold it fast ever since.
So I shared my boring testimony and, as I did, was struck by a simple, beautiful thought: Was Narnia any less magical because Lucy found it as a child? Far from it! Stumbling through the wardrobe was only the beginning of her adventure. And, as we discover throughout the series, Narnia does not follow the logic of the ordinary world. It does not get smaller as its child-citizens grow larger. Instead, it grows as they grow.
“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”– C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
I think those of us with “boring” testimonies fear that they make our faith seem small—as if it stays the same as when we were children or grows insignificant with age. But it’s the opposite. In Christ, our faith operates according to Narnia’s growth scale. The more we mature in it, the more marvelous and majestic it becomes.
All that to say, if your testimony is rather plain like mine, rejoice. Don’t think that it’s not worth sharing just because it’s not filled with trials and thrills leading up to a shocking conversion. Coming to Christ is not the end but the beginning of the adventure.
Ryanne Molinari 