"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." -Proverbs 3:5-6
Hello everyone! Thanks for coming to my page! 😉 Who am I? I love Jesus, and I love people. I want to tell you what I know about Jesus before I tell you about myself because even though I’m pretty important, Jesus is a lot more important than me! And even though I like attention, my true and right desire is to draw attention to God and not to myself. "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." -Galatians 2:20. I really want others to know about God not because I want to be right and I want them to be wrong, but because I want them to know the joy and peace that I’ve found in God. I’ve heard and seen that God can change people, heal people, and restore people. That He is loving, that He is all-powerful and all-knowing, forgiving and merciful, and just and holy. That He deserves our all our worship. That in Him there is purpose, hope, refuge. That this world and all its pleasures are temporary and unsatisfying and often lead to destruction, but that God’s ways are the best ways and the only ways to find lasting joy, satisfaction, and life.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the Bible is true and a reliable historical document. The beginning of the Bible records that God created the world and that He truly loves us. It then shows that humans used to have a perfect relationship with God until sin (anything disobeying God) entered the world first through Adam and Eve. Sin is a huge problem for us to have a right relationship with God because He is holy and just. Some people didn’t care that they sinned and others tried to follow rules religiously so that they could be right with God. However, ultimately both things couldn't restore the relationship with God. Way before Jesus actually came to earth, prophets predicted and it was recorded that a Savior (Jesus) would come. God then sent His son Jesus to glorify Himself and to restore the relationship we had with Him, and Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins even though He had no sin. This was an acceptable and just payment to God. Nothing we do on our own can get us right with God because we'll always mess up, but this doesn't mean we keep on sinning because if you truly love God you'll obey Him. After the 3rd day of Jesus being dead, God rose Him from the dead, and He was seen by actual people. Now, if you believe and obey Jesus, you can have a relationship with Him, your sins will be forgiven, and you will spend eternity with God in Heaven. The opposite is true if you don't believe and obey Jesus. It’s only through Jesus because otherwise the penalty of sin hasn't been paid if you don't accept Jesus. It is a free gift to anyone who believes. A Christ follower isn’t all of a sudden perfect on earth, but he/she is admitting and confessing their wrongs and acknowledging his/her need of a Savior, and they're being sanctified (being made more like the character of Christ). I acknowledge that I need a Savior and that God’s ways are better than mine and that I'm definitely not perfect, and I want to grow and be made into a better woman of God each day. The Old Testament of the Bible has books in it that talk about things like the creation and sin as I mentioned above, information about God's first chosen people (Jews), history, poetry, advice, songs, and books of prophets.The New Testament of the Bible starts out with books called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John- the books are named after who wrote them- these men saw and followed Jesus. They tell us about Jesus and say that He was the Son of God, and they record His teachings and His miracles. After that, there’s the history book of Acts, and then a lot of letters that different followers of Christ wrote to churches at the time about Jesus and then Revelation is a book of prophecy of things that are yet to happen.
So yeah what’s most important about me is that I love Jesus and that shapes who I am and how I view my life and the world. I’ve had a relationship with God for as long as I can remember, but I started to grow a lot in my relationship with God once I got to college, and I went from God being number 1 in my life to wanting to glorify God in absolutely every aspect of my life. I think that sometimes people view my faith as “extreme” Christianity or “radical” Christianity or as “really religious“, but when you read the Bible, it’s actually just “true” Christianity and it’s not religious in the sense that I’m doing repeated traditions or doing good works so that God will like me (because I’ll never be perfect here on earth), but it‘s about having a relationship with God. It's not about what I do, but about what Christ has already done. I don't have all the answers, but I've grown to trust God more and to not lean on my own understanding. I've learned to try to find my identity and self-worth in Him and not it what others think about me or what I think about myself.
So yeah I’m 23 years old, just graduated with an elementary education degree, currently taking some special education grad courses and finishing a Spanish minor, & I’m involved in some ministries. I’m from Shakopee, MN. It's currently freezing here and snowed today in MN. I’m very close to my family, and I love them a lot- I have my parents, older brother, twin sister, and younger sister. I also have a great group of friends whom I also love a lot. I love talking to God and learning more about Him, talking with people/socializing, cultures/languages/traveling, dancing, listening to music, writing, growing, watching football (mostly just the Vikings). I love to encourage and help people. I’m very detailed and reflective and I think I‘m pretty intentional and open. I don't like to watch movies a lot, I don't like fruit very much, I like to drink Coke, I like to stay up late…Well, one of my new year’s resolutions this year is to “be brief and business-like when necessary” haha….so hopefully I can try to make these blog posts shorter….that being said, I’m going to end this post! J Thanks for reading!
