Six months before I was saved my best friend in the world died.
It was a cat that I loved and used to go to bed and cry to and talk to and pat and he would purr.
When the cat died my two brothers and sister seemed to cope very well but I was struck down with an enormous pain.
The pain just did not shift as I was very close to my cat and I cried many nights alone in my bed wishing my friend was with me.
Six months later at the age of eight a child's evangelist came to town.
Every day after school we would go to church and listen to him.
On one of the days he spoke about Jesus and told us that He could be our special friend.
He told us that this friend would never leave us and always listen to us when we spoke to him.
This was refreshing news and I knew I could do with a special friend.
I am not sure if I understood sin or understood a sinner's prayer, all that I know is that I prayed for Jesus to become my friend that day.
Right away I knew I had a new friend and that night I began to start talking to him and laying down all my burdens to him.
Over the years he began to speak to me, first in songs he would put in my mind and then he would speak scripture verse and later he began to speak in sentences.
It is 32 years since that decision in my life and Jesus Christ has never left me, though I have left His church for many of those years and lived a life of sin.
Jesus was true to His promise and always was with me during all of my life.
Do you know Him? Do you know he can speak today to you? I pray that you can trust Him like I did that day.