KC

It is humbling to sit down and try to describe myself; to look into the mirror of my soul and come up with the an honest description of my life. If you already know me, then you know what my life was like before I decided to follow after Christ. If you really know me then you know what struggles I went through leading up to that decision. It's not that I thought I was a bad person. In fact, I thought of myself as a pretty good person, and that's what people told me. I don't think I would say now that it wasn't true. Maybe I was a good person. I knew my friends were good people. But I just sensed that something was missing. When I started reading God's word I certainly realized that even though I was a good person my life measured up drastically short of God's standards. Then I realized that God isn't pleased with people because their goodness might outweigh their sinfulness. In all truth as a fair judge, no amount of good should be able to make up for our sin in His court. It wouldn't be fair in any other court if a criminal was pardoned from the consequences of breaking the law because he had done good things as a citizen as well. No, the only thing that satisfies God's standards of living is a perfect life. That's pretty bad news because none of us have lived that way. The good news is that God knew that we wouldn't measure up. Instead, He made a plan by which we could be saved from our sins because God loves us. Not so much for our loveliness, but because love is a part of His very essence. Before time as we know it began He had formulated a plan to save us. That plan was for His Son to come into the world, live the perfect life that none of us could live, and then die as our substitute taking the judgment for our sins upon Himself. Then God raised Him from the dead to show that He truly was His Son. Jesus' coming was predicted long before He came. His death was predicted long before He came, and so was His resurrection. He was seen in the resurrection by many witnesses so that those who proclaimed Him would have credibility to speak such things. Then He sent His followers out to tell the good news about Him, that any who believe in Him would receive the gift of God which is eternal life. He wasn't an ego-centric founder of another religion. He knew God's plan for the salvation of mankind and followed it to the death. He knew what we needed to hear and believe to be saved. Since I have come to learn of these things I have made it my life's ambition to follow after Him. His word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path in life. The Bible contains everything we need to know about God and life. True there are many things hard to understand within its pages, many of which have been twisted by evil men for their own gain, but when thoughtfully examined and divided rightly, it is the most powerful tool for life on earth which we possess. That is what God meant for it to be. All I want to do now is tell others about the wonderful message God has. I still have my ups and downs. I still have struggles, temptations, failures, trials and heartaches. God never promised to take those kinds of things away in this life. In fact those things are quite good for character development. What God has promised is that He will be with us through it all. He has promised that He will provide everything we need to be content in this world, and even more than that in a lot of cases. And He has promised us that on the other side of this life there is a heaven that we can spend eternity in with Him. Not because we were such well behaved church people or do-gooders, but because we simply trusted in Christ to receive the free gift. That is what brings Him the most glory.