Taron From Tonsillectomy to Testimony

When he was just six years old, Taron had an experience that confirmed the reality of God. He suffered from repeated bouts of tonsillitis and high fevers that kept bringing him back to the hospital.

“One evening,” Taron recalls, “I was really sick and asked my grandmother if God would ever heal me. She said He would.”

The following afternoon, Taron was in his bed when suddenly the entire room lit up. He remembers, “I saw Jesus descending from heaven into my room. He asked what was wrong and I told Him about my illness.” Taron says Jesus placed His fingers in his mouth, removed his tonsils, and told him he would get well.

Actually, a kind surgeon removed Taron’s infected tonsils, but nonetheless his vision of being healed “was a catalyst for my strong belief in God at a young age.”

Later, as a teen, Taron began listening to Amazing Facts on Sunday mornings on TV. The messages led to his conversion while he was a high school sophomore. “I began to do the Amazing Facts Bible Study Guides. It was a critical point in my conversion,” he shares, and it led to his baptism. His thorough study impacted his lifestyle. “While reading Amazing Facts materials, I saw parts of my life that needed to change—my diet, the music I listened to, the movies I watched, my whole life needed to go in a different direction.”

Taron stopped hanging out with his friends on Friday nights and began keeping the Sabbath. “I stopped attending art class on Saturdays. That was hard to let go since I enjoyed painting so much. But when conviction comes, decisions have to be made,” he explains. He had no regrets about his choice.

“I began to attend church and become active in ministry,” he reveals. After attending a training program on soul winning, Taron now shares his faith with just about everyone he meets. Ultimately, Taron wants to enter full-time ministry. “I want to be a pastor and serve [others] for Christ,” he says. He is currently working as an insurance agent. “I provide life and health policies to clients, but my primary job is to help others secure eternal life insurance!”

Reflect: Have you ever given up something for Jesus—without any regrets?

Key Bible Texts

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. (Romans 12:1 KJV)