Have you ever been a part of something so big or so exciting that every where you go, you can't help but talk about it. It's like a buzz that happens among people when their excited about something. Its the very thing that is on your mind 24/7. You know I used to catch a slightly different kind of buzz and beleive me it wasn't from being part of some thing or any kind of natural high or excitement. All of my teen age years were wasted by drug and alcohol abuse. I used these substances to escape from life and to hid from past hurts and emotions and I hurt a lot of people in the process. I finally came to the point in my life by God's grace where I was just "sick and tired" of being "sick and tired". I came to realize that there had to be more to life than just partying and living for the moment, because that lifestyle was taking me no where fast. I can remember coming home from long shifts at the factory that I was working at and hearing something inside me telling me that I need to change and that I need to surrender my life to God and to His will for my life. Deep down inside I knew that this was my only hope, God.
All this was taking place in my life at the age of 21, I am now 3 months from my 29th birthday, married and have an adorable little girl named Olivia who is now 5 months old and I can't help but get emotional and cry when I think about what God has done in my life and how I now have a new life in Christ and how God wants that so desperately for everyone. Now early I mentioned the word "surrender" and I think that I would like to comment just a little more here on this word because I believe that it is critical in understanding the point that I am trying to make here in this post and that is simply this, that the joy/peace (or Buzz) that I receive now that I am a follower of Christ comes from a life that has and continues to surrender to God each and everyday. It's quite a paridoxal statement, I know. And so is the Christian life. Someone once said, to find your life you must first must lose it, or to live one must die. And yet another time it was said that you must be born again to recieve eternal life. So this is what I mean when I use the word surrender. The problem with that is that most people don't want to "surrender" or give up their lives, agenda, plans because our humanity says we can do it on our own, we don't need anyone else, God or anyone. The fact is we can't!! And yet we try time and time again, expecting different results.
So, I would invite anyone who is reading this blog to give God a try, test the waters so to speak and I think that if you search for Him with a geniune heart you will find him and not be disappointed. Not to say things will all be gravy so to speak, but as you surrender your life and trust God with it, He will help you in your travels along life's path.
Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
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