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My Days, My Life, My Lord
I have known the Lord almost all my life. I grew up learning about the Bible and singing songs about God. Every Sunday I would attend the children's meetings of the local church. I remember proclaiming that “I love God.” And I did! Yet loving the Lord and pursuing Him are two different subject matters. Merely loving God does not necessarily mean that I was actively pursuing Him. Only recently did I begin chasing after Christ; only then did I realize all that He is to me.
My senior year in high school was my turning point. To be honest, back then God was not #1 on my priority list. There were many other things occupying my time and I was extremely distracted. However, one day I realized something: If the Lord was not my focal point now, when would He ever be? Was I going to continue my days shrugging Him away until it was too late? I was posed with a choice. Either I needed to be “hot” for the Lord or be “cold.” There was no such thing as being “lukewarm” (Revelation 3:15-16). So what was I to do? I chose to start actively pursuing Him on a daily basis. This meant that I was going to try to gain Christ in my life consistently and regularly. No more off-and-on attendance in the meetings. Basically, I wanted to be fully for the Lord in every aspect. It was hard...but whoever said being a Christian and living a Christian life was easy?
From that point on, the threads of my existence and the meaning of my life were held together by just one thing--God. He was the One keeping things in place. Nothing else seemed to make more sense in this chaotic world. I saw many people searching for something they can't find. There is this emptiness, this void that they try continuously to fill with things that won't fill it. Some people also say that they “take things as they come.” But there is no such thing as that. Doing it on one's own doesn't bring happiness, contentment, and satisfaction.
This happiness that I have experienced is not a superficial happiness, but one that reaches into the innermost parts of my being. For now, I'm truly thankful for my situations, my family, and my friends. I feel like God has preserved me while watching over me mercifully and lovingly. He knows what I can handle and what I can't. My fears, my insecurities, my faults, my shortcomings...they're all being dealt with through Christ. I cannot do everything, but through Him I can do anything. I don't need to look for anything else. I am not empty--but full! My cup overfloweth to the brim.
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