Hello Everyone!
My name is Robin Jarrett. I currently live in Aurora Colorado and Calvary Chapel Aurora is the Church I call home! I am 22 now and will turn 23 in August, and was born and raised in Pueblo Colorado. Wow, that is a mouthful of information! Anyhow, I am the youngest of four kids; Alicia, Mike, Stephenie, and me! I also have two AMAZING nieces and my Mom and Dad are the Best! They are my support system!
So here is a little history on me. I am a relatively new daughter in the family of God, but the journey to get here has taken me the majority of my life. In 6th grade I joined Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and began to learn about God and Christ and the Holy Spirit, and began reading the Bible. This is when I first started to believe in God. I went to FCA all three years of middle school, and continued through high school and college as well. Although I believed in God and Christ, the lifestyle that I was living did not reflect it. I was living for myself, in a wasteful manner. In high school I focused on partying with friends. By the time college came my partying had quieted down some, I became extremely invested in my academics, and had a long term relationship with my high school boyfriend. Eventhough my selfish behavior was not quite as obvious as it had been in the past, it was still present and going strong. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of the things I focused my time on were great! I made some amazing friendships and had some wonderful experiences too, but I always had this emptiness deep in my heart that could not be filled, no matter how good things seemed to be going, and there was nothing that I could do for myself to fill it. I began to notice the joy, happiness, love, devotion, motivation, and compassion in the lives of the people I knew who had an authentic relationship with God. These people were living their lives for God and it showed!!! I finally got thirsty enough for their kind of hope and life with God that I began to contemplate my own lifestyle and relationship with God. I began to question what they had that I didn’t. God showed me the answer! I was living life for myself; a selfish, sinful life, separate from Him. He showed me with my own actions how badly I needed Him to be in charge and how separate from Him I truly was. Since then I have made Jesus Christ the Lord over my life, accepted His sacrifice for my sins, repented to God, been forgiven and set free, and now live my life for God and His purposes. Putting God in control of my life and living for Him (instead of myself) has changed everything. The feeling of emptiness is now gone and I am filled with the joy, happiness, love, devotion, motivation, and compassion that I had always been yearning for! Eventhough I still sometimes stumble and fall, I am overflowing with the Love and Grace of God, and it is His strength that allows me to keep getting up again and again, and keep moving forward! I am soooo very thankful to Jesus for His willing sacrifice that enabled me to put my old life to death and be born again as a daughter of the MOST HIGH!
I hope you enjoyed reading my super long bio!!!! GOD BLESS.
In His Grace,
Robin
