Testimonies True

This week I re-read many testimonies I received through years past. It was interesting to read them with hindsight, since some people had continued as an asset to the Church, while others had not. While the interpretation of testimonies is a subjective thing, I would think that it was the conviction of sin that meant that certain testimonies held through the coming years. A want of that conviction did not bode well. Some testimonies came close -- and by "close" I mean that they evidenced thankfulness to Christ, or personal experience of God, or acknowledgement of fault, and so on -- yet not the conviction of sin, which is the touch of the Spirit. "He will come to convict the world of sin" (John 16:8). OBSERVATION: Some of the convictions of sin were "faltering", in the sense that they were described vaguely, or they developed over time -- yet the conviction was there.