The testimony of
Miss E. Flanagan.
I was
born and brought up in the Roman Catholic faith.
I was taken to Mass every Sunday as a young child
and I made my first communion and confirmation.
It wasn't until my late teens that I began to
feel a terrible emptiness in my life.
I tried to be happy with worldly pleasures and treasures
but I found I wasn't happy or being fulfilled, and life
itself was becoming very mundane.
It was when I went to work with a group of Priest
and Nuns that I began to want what they had.
I entered a convent after four years of searching
and really believed that being a Nun was the fulfilment I needed
in life.
I found after 11 years that I was no nearer to God
and that it was impossible for me to please God because
I couldn't please Him by doing things for Him.
For God's word says: "For without faith it is impossible
to please God".
I left the convent disillusioned hurt and no nearer
to heaven. But God had it all worked out.
The house I lived in was just a few doors away from
a Christian lady whom I became friendly with.
She had something I hadn't got and I knew it.
She had inner peace and joy and assurance of heaven.
And it was during a mission she talked quite a lot about God.
I never thought of going to this mission until she
asked me if I would like to go and I said yes.
At that mission I heard the Gospel for the first
time and I knew from what I heard the reason I wasn't close to
God, because the Bible says, in Ephesians 2:8-10: "For by grace
are ye saved through faith".
So all my works counted for nothing. I couldn't
pay the debt I owed to God because Jesus died for me and finished
all sacrifice for sin when He said on the cross "It is
finished".
I knew I needed to be saved if I wanted to get to
heaven.
On the 31st October 1994 God had mercy on
me as I repented of my sin and by His Grace saved me.
I thank God for the one who alone was worthy to
pay the price of sin. He only can save us.
Love so amazing, so divine demands my soul, my life,
my all.
