I am obeying this command, not only because
I want to show everyone that I am a loyal Christian, but it’s because I am a
joyful Christian that is having this unique privilege that shows how I am
living a joyful life through Christ.
I
started to go to a Christian school when I was 4 years old. I grew up listening
to the stories of the Bible, and how great Jesus was. However, I never knew
understood the reason on why we should keep reading the Bible or assist to
every church meaning. I was there simply because my parents forced me to be a
socially active person.I still remember
using Jesus Christ as an excuse of life, the only reason on why I went to
church was because I wanted to live trough eternity in heaven and care about
myself. I didn’t really give value to the things that Jesus did for me.
I
never wanted to spend time with the Lord, so I started to invent reasons on why
I should be doing things that I thought that were important. Sometimes I read
the Bible because everyone read it. These lies that I invented seemed to be the
truth.
Unfortunately, all the lies that apparently
suited in my life were made to drive me out of reality. Did I really know what
was true?
A dramatic turn
of event occurred one day when my friends and I were assisting a Christian
concert that my teacher invited us to go. After he finished playing, my teacher
and I gathered together with my friends ,and we started to feel the Holy Spirit
was surrounding us. At that point, I didn’t feel comfortable with myself and my
understanding of the Bible yet. People often mentioned that God talked to them
through quiet time, so one day I asked myself: “What can I loose.”
At the
beginning, after reading a few chapters of the Bible, I started to realize that
God was trying to interact with me. My curiosity towards God started to grow
until one day I realized that my interest started to develop, and then I
finally understood the concept of being saved by faith, because without him we
can’t be saved.
Now that I
realized how complex the context of religion was I found out that only the
important things that belonged to God were worth of pursuing. The everyday life
was not a wild adventure, a battlefield or just another day that was added to
my daily life. Now that I am God centered, I know that I won all the battles
that I had and will possibly have. My heart is not only cleansed of sin, but it
longs for God now.
I know that I
will be put intentionally in situations that regular non-Christian people
wouldn’t be able to face with ease, in situations that only God can help us
solve, and I am glad that I am going to be there with God, because I am not in
the position of the non-Christian person. I know that risking my life for him
is going to be painful, but that pain will definitely be an itchy after experience
a life near my God.
The power of God
is infinite, and I am still wondering what took me so long to understand that.
