Once we love Jesus enough to obey his commands in our lives, we get to a stage where he shows himself to us and we have direct experiential knowledge of him. Then we can give our own testimony about him. It might help to refer to his own words about himself but we are free to give testimony that is truly what we have seen in him. It is important that this testimony is one’s own testimony, not something we are told to say. At this point we are free to say even things he might not have said about himself, because we have our own uniquely personal knowledge of him. A testimony cannot be genuine if it is dictated by others.
