The Ways God Has Changed My Life

No matter what, we all need forgiveness. We all fall short of the glory of God. Luckily, we have a Holy Father who loves so dearly that He sent His one and only Son to die for us. We were doomed to a horrible fate. He wasn’t okay with that. He decided it was and is worth it to send His Child to die so that we would have a chance to be with Him.
 It’s worth it. Everything you do. Everything you put into this. Everything you sacrifice.
Everything. It’s all worth it. The first time you see someone come to know Him, you feel this feeling. It’s incomparable to anything else. When I sit in silence and think of His love for me, I can’t help but smile. When I go out and show people kindness, which is easy for me because my Father in Heaven showed me true kindness first, it’s so rewarding to be able to make someone’s day better. When they compliment me for my patience, kindness, or understanding, they don’t know it, but I know they’re not complimenting me. The Lord did all of that. My human nature does not allow me to be kind and selfless towards people, but thanks to God, I am not controlled by my human nature. I can ignore my fleshly desires of laziness, pleasure, gluttony, and only thinking of myself because God came into my life. The greatest decision I’ve ever made I make on a daily basis. I ask the Lord to come into my life and guide me. I ask that He take authority over my life. And I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I get it all right all the time. To be honest, most days I do a pretty horrible job. But that’s one thing I love about God. He doesn’t care. As long as I’m actively and intentionally seeking to become better and more God-like every day, I know I’m going to be okay. I may look at the past few days sometimes and think, “Wow, I really am terrible. Have I really improved?” But then I’ll look back a few years, or even just a few months, and I see the selfishness I had, the lazy person I chose to be, and the horrible thoughts I had towards myself. Yeah, there’s no way I could have changed that much in that short of a time without God’s help.

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