My new life...

In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. John 3:3

I was born at age 17, no not physically born, spiritually born. Nineteen years ago I was born into a sinful world in a sinful body, I was "dead." I grew up in two separate households, when one decided to start going to church, I followed; at age 11 I was Mormon. I went to the Mormon church for about 7 years, thinking I was perfectly okay and my works plus Jesus would lead me to where I wanted to go, I mean no one really wants to go to hell and be punished forever right??? Eventually, the hardships of life and my desires for horrible things took over, but I was still a Mormon of course going to heaven. Well, God disagreed and here’s where the real story begins, His story.

I was working at Jack's Surfboards, wonderful place, gotta love it...don't miss it. But never the less eternally grateful for how God used that job. Well, there was this boy whom I became fond of and visa versa, well to make a long story short after a long time of waiting he asked me out (later to know it was his mom who told him to and bring me to church :D) our first date church and a movie, pretty much the next few weeks followed in that pattern, after a while I began to see a difference from his church and mine, but I did not believe on any grounds that God could change a person, that was of course until Jordan was saved. Wow did I hear A LOT about God and the bible from both him and his mom (Mechell <3) they told me something I had never heard before, the Gospel. I was sinful, which deserved separation from God in hell, but Christ came and He took on those sins after living a life of perfect righteousness and then was punished in my place for all I had done and would ever do, this free gift of grace. Still, God couldn't really change someone...could He? I had seen how Mechell lived quite differently from everyone else I knew and now Jordan had radically changed! But, I was a "Christian" I "believed" in Christ.....

One night at work Jordan was talking to the other guys who worked there defending what he knew to be true but they were against him....I knew at that moment he was right and I wanted to defend God with him but God used that to show me that I was not a follower of Him and that I did not trust in Him with my life. That night after a long talk with Jordan, God replaced my heart of stone with a heart that yearned for Him, I repented of all my sins and placed my faith and entire life in the hand of the Living God...That night I was born into a true life, a life worth living, a life in complete devotion to Christ...

My prayer for this blog is that it would really be God's not my own. That it would be a blessing to not only myself but to others and to share what God has done in my daily life that is so captivating and so truthful!