What's My Story
Taking the Risk
Michael
Before I had a relationship with Jesus, I was the ultimate pessimist. I was always doubting everything, myself, my family, but especially about religion. I just figured that if the world is so bad, that even if there was a God, he has either forgotten us. Or the much more understandable result. There simply was no God...
My pessimism often led me to doubt things before I even knew anything about them. My family would come to me and try to get me to open up, to try something new. But I would always say that "it won't work. I'll be no good at it. Why should I waste my time." I withdrew until I could go no deeper within myself. I didn't want to take any risks, for anything. Then after some very wounding events, I decided that I need to take a risk. I needed to find out with this Jesus guy that people take about was real or just a fake. I wasn't disappointed.
I took the risk and found a group of people who accepted me for who I was. A group that I could trust. And though that I found that there IS something that can be trusted. More like Someone. That there is such a person as God.
I remember once I was asked to go with a group of people to the house of their friend's by a friend of mine. He asked the dude about it, and he said for me to come, he'd love to meet me. But I felt doubtful about it, I kept thinking that "there's no way these people could want to be my friends. Not when they see who I am." But I decided to take the plunge and I went with my friends. And I ended up having a awesome day and made some great friends that day. All because I trusted that one friend.
But you can't trust just anybody. However, I know that I can trust Jesus Christ. If I were to die right now, I know for sure that I would go to be in heaven with Jesus. Because He told me so.