God. A name that many people don't understand. For some, the name of God brings thoughts of church, rules, and even confusion. God is something much more for me though. In this entry I just want to break down and retell how I got to know who God is and why I made the choice to live for Him.
"To live for Him" this statement means that when I was a kid, I prayed. And in that prayer I promised to God that I would believe in him and follow him for the rest of my life. I believed that I wanted God to "save" me from death. The fact that God was going to “save” me was the basis for my prayer. When we die, if we believe in God and believe that Jesus Christ, who is God's son, died for us and then came back alive from death, we will be saved from death. When we die we will be "saved" which means we get to spend the rest of eternity in Heaven. This seems like a lot for just a child to grasp. But I got it. I knew what it meant and I believed everything that I knew about Jesus. I believed that He is God's son and I believed He died for me and then came back to life to show that He truly is God's son. I knew that I wanted to learn how to have a real relationship with Him. I knew that I wanted to spend eternity in heaven when I died. I still don't know exactly how I grasped all of this at such a young age but I did and it definitely worked. I still remember sitting down with my parents in my living room and them asking me a bunch of question about God and Jesus and if I really knew what I was talking about. When they knew that I was serious about wanting to know God, they prayed for me and then let me pray and ask God to save me from me from sin and death.
Ever since that day I have been learning more about God and what it means to know Him. The motivation that I have to live for Him comes from the fact that Jesus died for me. Since He died I get the chance to go to Heaven. When I think of God I don’t think of rules, or church, I think of Jesus and the fact that he loved us enough to die for us and let us spend eternity in Heaven.
