David Gee

* Sheffield team leader

My testimony in the truest sense is very short and says very little, who and what I want people to know is Jesus Christ and His work in my life.

My testimony is as follows; I was born David Gee in 1979 and before salvation was a typical child of the world, self reliant and sinful. My Godly parents instructed in the things of God during this time (thank you Mum and Dad!). I was born again of the Spirit's sovereign work at a Boys Brigade chapel service in 1987, the life that has followed that has been one typical of Rm 7:7-25. I have and do live with sins and failure to honour God as I should, but I cling to and trust in my glorious Saviour and in Him and through His power I seen the war against sin waged and the race run. God has given me the privilege of a mind that is sharp and able in most things (yet oddly enough is extremely vague!). During my pre-teen and teenage years I grieved God by filling this mind with trash; fantasy books, computer games and sexual fantasies. The pollution of this time of disobedience and dissipation I still struggle with and my saviour is removing in His grace. After high school I trained as a scientist in the field of zoology, ecology and botany at the University of Queensland Australia. This I was unable to complete due to prejudice in the scientific world, if I wrote my papers in honesty (calling evolution the unfounded faith that it is) I would have been failed. I would not lie my way to a degree so I transferred and completed my training as a veterinarian at the same institute. Since graduation I have worked until now as a small animal veterinarian, currently in the United Kingdom.

The true testimony of my life is best described in terms of what Christ has done in me and His work. Though I was redeemed when in repentance and faith I was turned to Jesus, I have seen the years roll by with my redemption continuing to be worked out. My mind has been redeemed from useless fantasy worlds of novels and games of my youth, now to be used more and more to glorify His name. My heart He has redeemed from selfish self-protection to now increasingly being willing to receive blows of any sort rather than step back from the mark of the gospel. He has trained and continues to train me in many ways. I have seen Him making me a better student, that I might teach with humility more often than with pride. I have seen Him teach to me honour and love my parents, that He would have me be an honouring husband.

The leading (and sometimes chastening) of my Lord has taken me places I have never thought I'd go and often did not initially want to go. I have been lead from a life of science and research to veterinary work, where I learnt to serve others and desire the healing of this broken world. I have been forced, cajoled, or pushed at alternate occasions from an intense shyness and Christian apathy; to now enabled by Christ to proclaim His work to others, all be it in immense unworthiness and weakness. Through the chastening of His word and Spirit I am being taken from my natural sullen passivity (all to slowly!), to be increasingly the self-sacrificing leader of my home and family. My parents have named me after a Godly king and fearless prophet of the Old Testament, in my pride I once thought of my self in these terms. Now I see that it is truest of and best applied to Jesus. He is the King of kings and Lord over this wretch who dared to try ruling his own life. He is the true and final Prophet whose powerful word and holy person this little voice proclaims so weakly.

To you, who have read this testament to Christ, assume the best of what I failingly try to put in words of my Lord's work. Do not think me proud of my life or self, I am proud of what God has done in me and will exult in Jesus Christ and in Him alone.

In the words of John the Baptist: "He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30).
May this always be so of me, Solos Christos! Soli Deo Gloria!

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