Little Red Book Ministry

The Christian in a Lost World:
Your Personal Testimony
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see
death; and was not found, because God had translated
him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that
he pleased God” (Hebrews 11:5).
Under the influence of the Holy Ghost, Solomon wrote “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches” (Proverbs 22:1). The subject he was dealing with is what we call our personal testimony. When you first got saved, your testimony was your story of what God had done for you to make of you a new creature. Beyond this, and more importantly, it is your statement before the world regarding who you are now and what things are important to you now. You make this statement with your words, your thoughts, and your deeds.

The greatest testimony we can achieve is that which Enoch had as recorded in Genesis 5:21–24. Enoch pleased God so much that he was spared the experience of death. He was the first man to enter eternity through a rapture experience.

When you were born again, you became a representative of God on Earth. This should be a very sobering thought because it is an awesome responsibility. Scriptures tell us that we are now ambassadors of the Kingdom of God to a lost world (2 Corinthians 5:20). We no longer have the right to do whatever we want to. We must always consider what is best for the Kingdom we represent. Our Lord bought us with His own precious blood and we owe Him our complete allegiance (1 Corinthians 6:19–20; 7:23; 2 Peter 2:1).

If you have not noticed already, you no doubt soon will realize that once it becomes known that you are a child of God, people will forever be watching you and pointing out every deviation from the Word of God. You have become a target, a marked person. You no longer fit well in this world and have become only a pilgrim passing through; a stranger in a strange land (Hebrews 11:13; 1 Peter 2:11). Therefore you might as well make up your mind to be the best ambassador for your King that you can be. There is great reward in this as we saw in Lesson 13.