Continued…..
While I was at training camp I met this woman, whom I now call one of my best friends, Taryn Mast.
We bonded over having identical phones and loving designer jeans, yes superficial I know. We shared a lot of things in common, we had lived similar lifestyles for a time and both had struggled with the life sold to us by the world and lived out those temptations.
More than that we had the same rock which we had begun re- building on lives upon- Jesus Christ.
I don’t believe in coincidences. There is no such thing- it’s GOD.
In my youth I had thought I was superwoman incapable of anything actually affecting me or my life long-term. Because you’re supposed to have fun, enjoy your youth and live it up right? Well that’s the lie I so easily fed into from the world.
I felt and knew the gravity of my sin, I need I was in need of being made new, and I knew that God was pursuing me and that nothing no matter the feeling I felt, could keep me from His undying love for me. I knew sin was wrong but I knew condemnation was not from God but from the devil; especially as weeks before I had mourned and repented to God for my sins of the past.
I had a Savior who died to wash away all my sins and I felt His grace in such a way that I began to not know how life was possible without knowing the Hope he offers us. In a desperate way, I realized how I much I needed and could not continue on without Him or His grace. And His love washed over me like I had never felt before.
I don’t know if you have ever looked back from a present situation and said how did I even get here? And then realized how it was not a one day decision to choose sin, but a step by step, choice by choice that resulted in where you are now.
More to come…….
