John 9:12

The people ask him, “Where is this man you speak of?” He answers honestly, “I have no idea!” John 9:12 EFP 

What else could the man answer? All he knows in the man’s name and the fact that he had never seen anything in his entire life until this day, after the yet-to-identified man healed him. That’s all. Not much of a story in terms of detail, but boy, does it ever hold a wallop.

I guess the temptation is always there to say more than we know for certain or even to embellish in order to avoid looking amateurish. The truth is that we look foolish when we speak of that which we do not know. We make claims we cannot back up or speak of experiences we have never had. God does not ask me to share what I do not know or testify of what I have not seen. He simply wants me to speak honestly of what God has done for me.

My story is not anyone else’s story. It is mine. I do not live my purpose if I make my story what it is not. My witness is what I have seen and heard and felt for myself. And if there is a moment when I do not know an answer, the best I can say is “I have no idea.” We will all be called to stand for Jesus. The only testimony that will endure time and scrutiny is the testimony that is true. Simple. Genuine. Honest. Human. That is what I want my life’s testimony to be.