Rhonda Adkins

I was raised in a very conservative, religious family. My grandfather was a pastor. So I was at church a lot.

At about age eight a person asked me if I wanted to ask Jesus to be my Savior and I said yes. So I said a prayer and I was given some materials to help me grow in my relationship with Jesus. Later that day I showed the material to my grandfather and was basically told that I was too young. After that there were other times when I prayed, but I never told anyone. I just convinced myself that my prayer was not good enough.

When I was about seventeen I went to a cousin’s who was a pastor. We went to his church. That afternoon he asked if I would like a relationship with Jesus. I again said yes and committed my life to Jesus.

I went back to my home church and told them what had happened. I was again told that this was not enough. But this time I knew what had happened and no one was going to tell me any different.

I got married and several years later my husband decided that he did not want to be married to me any more. I asked Jesus to help me because this was not what I wanted.  After a while I felt like my husband’s decision to leave was more about my relationship with Jesus than it was about anything else.

I knew that if I stopped making Jesus such a high priority in my life, my husband might come back to me. But I also knew he could just leave me again.  Jesus was the one person I could always depend on, so I chose to remain committed to Him. I know that Jesus will never leave me.

Rhonda Adkins