Blog #1 My Story

Hey guys, I am here to tell you my story about how I came to know the Lord and how I became the better person I am today. So here goes, you might want to grab a drink of water because because we are going to be here awhile. 

How should this story start, oh I know... Once upon a time, no that’s too fairy tale like. I am one of three kids and I grew up in a very Christian household. I have a pastor for a father and teacher for a mother. So growing up I went to church every Sunday. I have heard every bible story you can think of from Noah to the creation of the world. Crazy right? Well as I got older I began to get pulled away from that and started to become more like the world than of what God wanted me to be. I guess you can say I started to run away from Him and when I entered middle school things got rough because I wasn’t really fully committed to Jesus. Because I loved Him but I wasn’t reading the word or growing in His word. Those years taught me so much and I shall tell you now.  Well like many of us all we want to do is fit in with the cool people. I remember a certain group of girls and they seemed to be nice. Well I started to sit with them in art class. Next thing I know I was saying things that were not good at all. I realized that these girls were not my friends at all. From that experience I have learned who my true friends are. 

I actually do have some really amazing friends today and I am grateful for that. I tell this because when it comes to friendships keep this in mind. Friends will come and go in your life. I truly thought those girls were my friends at the time because I did not have any friends except for one but she was at a different school. 

Anyway when you're having some  problems with friends, like they start to exclude you or something, remember this verse. Psalms 62:5-8 says “Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in Him at all times, o people; pour out your hearts to Him for God if our refuge.” I keep this verse in mind to this day. It’s been helpful to me in the past few years.

Anyway, once those girls were out of my life forever, all I wanted to do was just pass middle school and move on like some of us today in some ways. Well when middle school ended I entered high school. Now high school for me was fine I guess. 

But I was still not fully committed to God at that time. See I was one of those people that would go to things from vacation bible school, young life and youth group. Yeah, I did it all and I was also one of those who had the Bible just to have. I never read it growing up really, I would only carry it to church only to put it back on my shelf for the rest of the week till Sunday came. I never really studied it, until now that is. It only took until after high school that I really needed Jesus in my life. 

See, I had this realization maybe I was not truly saved and I did not want to spend the rest of my life suffering and going to hell instead of heaven. So I recommitted myself to the Lord. Let’s just say it feels so wonderful knowing that I have a relationship with the One who created the whole world. From fish of the sea, stars in the sky, grass on the ground and many other things. 

Now and days I read the Bible everyday and it feels great in so many ways. Now let’s get one thing straight, being a Christian isn’t easy. There are costs to it and people that you know will try to get you away from Him, but I tell you this because you shouldn’t give up. Focus on the Lord always and read His word and things are going to be ok. 

I know that for myself because before I thought I did not need Him. But it turns out I really can’t live without Jesus in my life. I would just be a lost sheep wondering where her loving shepherd is. Before God we all tend to run away from thinking that we could all do our own thing when it comes to friends, family, relationships, the list goes on and on. Well turns out, we really can’t. Jesus loves us all and wants to be in a relationship with you. 

I know that He truly loves you too and if you let Him in your life things will turn out well for you. How you may ask? Well from recommitting to the Lord whole-heartedly things looked up for me. I now have a really cool job, a car that works and true friends who truly care about me. Not to mention I have a really amazing church family too. 

Well I guess that’s the end of this story. Just remember that the Lord loves you. Bye. 

John 3:16 “For God so Loves the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”