"Today, 8th July 2017, I decided to get baptized. In 2011, I pronounced that I believed Jesus Christ died for me but I never felt changed. I never pursued Him in all His splendor. I never turned from my life of sin. I didn’t know what it meant to be a Christ
Follower– I just knew that I was protected from hell because of it. Coming on the race has been my true first steps in pursuing God and allowing Him to pursue me and believing that I was worth relentless pursuit. In that, the Lord asked me to let go of my
old self and to lay her at the cross trusting Him to love her. It was hard. I had carried around her baggage for so long, I couldn’t believe that He wanted to set me free from it. I was so consumed by her shame, I couldn’t imagine how He could ever love me
like He does everyone else. That’s what I allowed the enemy to tell me and this world: that I wasn’t worth it. The truth is that The Lord delights in me (and you) and He does that singing. The truth is that I don’t have to carry guilt, shame and regret for
my very long list of past mistakes. The truth is that I don’t have to sit in my past anymore because Jesus died on the cross for us. The truth is: I’m a new creation, I’m forever changed."
