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Karen Johnson's final high school paper revealed her love for God the day before she was killed

Chicago teen Karen Johnson handed her school assignment to her teacher at San Marino High School on Friday June 5, 1959. She titled it “My Philosophy of Life”. In her paper, 17-year-old Karen expressed her unswerving faith and love for God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ. Next day, a car crash took her life away.

Since her school and parents made Karen's paper public, many people have admitted they came to know Christ because of it. Some young men went into Christian ministry because of it. Here is Karen's paper.

My Philosophy of Life

by Karen Ruth Johnson

My philosophy of life is based on the Holy Bible and the God who wrote it. I know that He has a plan for my life and through daily prayer and reading of His Word I will be able to see it. As far as my life work or life partner, I am leaving it in His hands and am willing to do anything He says.

I feel that this philosophy is very practical and can be applied to everyday life. Every decision can be taken to the Lord in prayer and the peace that comes from knowing Jesus Christ as my personal Savior is something many cannot understand. Many search for a purpose and reason for life. I know that I am on this earth to have fellowship with God and to win others to the saving knowledge of His Son, Jesus Christ. I know that after death I will go to be with Him forever.

Jesus Christ teaches love and respect for everyone through the New Testament and we are not to judge anyone because He will on the judgment day. In God's sight no one person is worth more than another.

Knowing and loving Jesus Christ personally makes me want to please Him and accomplish things for His Glory. Paul says in the New Testament, “Whatsoever ye do, do it all to the glory of God” and “For me, to live is Christ, to die is gain”.

This philosophy contains all of the seven points given in your lecture of April 20th. As I stated in the beginning, it is very

practical to have someone to turn to for any decision or problem, small or large.

What could be more optimistic than knowing that God has a purpose and plan for one's life and is willing to keep in constant fellowship with anyone who will. To know I have accepted Jesus Christ's gift of Salvation and will have eternal life in Heaven is a most wonderful thing and brings peace to my heart. God has the best for us and if we let Him He will improve our lives and solve our problems.

God in His Holy Word teaches us to have love and a burden for every person as Jesus Christ Himself.

One of my main purposes in life is to share this experience I have had with Christ and to show them the peace and happiness that it brings.

This is an important goal in itself, but more completely, my aim in life is to accomplish what the Lord has for me to do, which is certainly the most worthwhile goal in life.

The closer I grow to Him the more happiness I find and the busier I am. He has things for me that the world could never offer and I learn to appreciate more and more how fortunate I am.

God's standards are higher than anything attainable, and present a great challenge and make me realize how futile it would be for me to do the best I could, because I, being human, could never reach God's standards, and therefore never be worthy of entering Heaven. God has given me contact with the best; in His world, in my born-again friends, and in my fellowship with Jesus Christ. It is well known that the highest beauty, truth, justice, and goodness is found in God's Word.

This is my philosophy, yet it is not mine, but I am God's, and whatever I have is His and I have faith that He is the only answer and I love Him so.

From More Than Conquerors, edited by John Woodbridge, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, 1992.

Karen Johnson, 17, wrote of her faith in Jesus Christ in her last high school paper. Next day she was dead.
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