Testimony

When I went back to my room I got hold of "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life." that night I just meant business, and it seemed to come so plain--old truths, it may be, they seemed to grip me that time. I had known about Jesus Christ's dying for me, but I had never understood that if he had died for me, then I didn't belong to myself. Redemption means 'buying back' so that if I belonged to him, either I had to be a thief and keep what wasn't mine, or else I had to give up everything to God. When I came to see that Jesus Christ had died for me, it didn't seem hard to give up all to him. It seemed just common, ordinary honesty.
--Testimony of Charles T. Studd