A New Life
Testimony of Tim Hamaker
A few years ago it seemed there was nothing to live for and life didn’t mean much. Drink had a hold of me, and other things that go with it. I needed help in the worst way.
In the midst of all this, God spoke to my heart. That meant something to me as a sinner. I began to talk to God and to read the Bible. The more I sought God, the more I wanted to know Him. I always wanted to know God as far back as I can remember, and He began to become very real to me. I began to look for a church to go to. I was not raised in the church, and I did not know where to go, but my heart was hungry for the things of God, and He helped me in my sinful condition to find my way to Him.
We began to attend a church that preached the Truth—salvation that saves from sin. Shortly after, I made my way to the altar. There I found God. He met me there and Jesus forgave me of all my sins. What a wonderful day! He brought such a change in my life. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new.” II Corinthians 5:17
Friend, if you feel you have nothing to live for and life seems meaningless, why don’t you call on God, and let Jesus help you? He will if you ask Him.
After I was saved my heart longed for more of God. I began to realize something within was not right. I knew I was saved—sins forgiven, changed inwardly and outwardly, making my wrongs right, walking in the light, but something on the inside of me was not right.
I sought God at home, at work, in the car, at the railroad track, down at the church, at camp meeting. When God showed me the jealousy and anger in my heart, I sought Him at the altar in camp meeting. There I told God that I could not go on like this any longer. Right there I confessed and yielded everything up to God. He gave me a clean heart. Thank God!
Friend, if your heart longs to know God in His fullness and to be clean within, call on Him and He will wash you and make you whiter than snow.
David prayed in Psalm 51:2, “Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.” In verse 7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” In verse 10, “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” I John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, AND to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”