What's My Story
Love
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Although I knew that being a Christian meant believing in Christ, I don't think I really understood what exactly this meant until about two years ago. In June of 2009 I went to a Christian camp for youths in elementary, middle and high school and served as a couselor's assistant. This was my first time there and I barely knew anyone and felt very new to the situation. But slowly over the four days, I realized the passion and love for God within these kids who were all younger than I was. In seeing their genuine faith and love, I felt challenged as well. For the first time in eight years of attending church, I felt the stories that I so often heard come to life and become real events.
I learned about this man named Jesus Christ. I knew everything a typical Christian would know about Him before. But starting from this retreat and the months that followed, Jesus became more than just a perfect Man Who did perfect things in His life on earth. I can't put it to just one moment when i "felt" like I believed in Christ. I think it was a gradual process for me to realize and understand that I truly do believe in Him and what He did on the cross for me.
Christ is fully God and fully man. It is possible to say that God knows all our human struggles because He went through them in the person of Jesus Christ. Jesus lived a perfect life. We, on the other hand, are born sinners. It is our very nature to be sinful beings. Christ took our punishment for us. HE took our punishment FOR us. On the cross, Christ experienced complete separation from God. He descended into Hell. He took the Hell we deserved and went through it Himself just so that it is even possible for us to have a relationship with God. Through Christ, I know that my sinful being is restored and redeemed. for "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me." (Galatians 2:20)
In Christ, there is hope and I hope that you would seek that hope as well.
Throughout the past couple months, I have been struggling to understand the love of God. God's love is something so great that we, as humans, cannot possibly understand it fully. I think it is a constant struggle to try to understand God's love. I have had some struggles throughout my time with God, but I feel that each one has only helped me and strengthened me as a person.
Our God loves each and every one of us. His love is the only way that we are even able to approach Him. "This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (1 John 4:10)