I am a believer. What does this mean? It means I believe there is a Creator - a God who exists and moves and spoke the universe - the world - people - nature -everything - into existence. I believe He loves His creation - and most of all He loves people - who He made in His own image. We are His crowning achievement over everything else He made. We are His children.
Long story short - we rebelled against Him. But instead of wiping us out and starting over - He has been working to redeem us and a relationship with us ever since. And that is where Jesus Christ comes into the story. God came down to us as a human 2000 years ago. He lived a perfect life of no sin - and in a perfect relationship with God, His Father, and then He voluntarily took the punishment meant for us onto Himself. He died on a criminal's cross and then - because He is God - He conquered death and rose from the dead 3 days later.
He made a way for people to be made righteous - to be made right with God again - and ever since then we can know God intimately - we can be His children again. Everything was put right. All we have to do is believe. It's so simple. Just believe it and accept it.
So, I am a believer - I know Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour and Friend. And honestly, if anything good comes of my illness and of me sharing my story - I would wish that every person that reads it would come to know Jesus in that same way.
It has made all the difference for me. I have had some very dark moments along this road but through it all Jesus has been with me, He has carried me, and I know - without a shadow of a doubt - that He is real, that He loves me, that He will never leave me or forsake me and that my life with Him will continue on even after this body of mine (that at 41 years old is starting to really fail me) is finished here on earth - my soul will live forever in the Presence of God in a new body.
So that is the foundation of my life and of my story. And it is a good, solid foundation.
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