As a 16 year old "cradle Catholic", I was yearning to know God and on my walk home from Mass one Sunday I prayed, "God, if you are real, if there is any such thing as truth, I want to know it.". Within a month or so of that prayer, I was in a Sunday school class at my Grandparents' Southern Baptist Church and the teacher handed me a Bible and showed me John 10:28-30. I read:
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.
A light turned on in my soul and I understood for the first time that I can know I have eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ and I will never perish or be taken out of His hands. I received Jesus as my savior that day and my life was not the same. I don't claim to be a perfect Christian or that I don't have ups and downs in my walk with Christ, but He has NEVER given up on me. He was/is always faithful to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. He keeps His promises. He knows His own and we hear His voice and follow Him because He is the Good Shepherd. His grace, mercy and love are inexhaustible and I praise Him every single day.
Your testimony shows great wisdom from a very early age. I join you in praise to God for his many rich and undeserved blessings to us.
"O the deep, deep love of Jesus,
Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!"