Faith, friends, art, music, and craziness
These are the things that best sum up my life. However, recently it has been mostly about faith. My walk with the Lord has been full of ups and downs and last semester was one of the lowest points of my walk with Christ. How did I get to such a low point? It all went downhill because I stopped setting aside a part of my day to spend with God. I underestimated how much that time would impact my life each day. Whether that included my language, my thought life, my prayer life, and even how I treated others.
When some of my friends started talking to me about my walk with Christ and asked how I was growing, I couldn't give them an answer. I knew that the shame of sin had kept me from growing in Christ, but what I wasn't aware of was that other people were noticing it too. Due to this self-reflection, as well as some talks with close friends, I decided to set out to find what had caused me to change and to intentionally make room each day for the important things in life again. This was all done in an attempt to really get rooted back in Christ and to find out how I could grow.
Prior to this whole come to Jesus moment, I had been completely wasting my time and my life was getting increasingly worse. I was doing things that I wanted to do and putting all of me into my relationship with my girlfriend at the time, time with my family, and spent too much time playing video games and watching TV. Yet, at the end of it all, I still felt so empty inside. It was only later on that I understood that I felt empty because I was trying to satisfy desires that only the Lord could fill.
What's the point of it all?
I may have spent time doing things that I loved and relationships, but I had missed the whole point of life. I wasn't living for Christ and making room in my life for him daily. And time was only one of the things hindering my walk with the Lord. Another factor impacting my spiritual life was sin. And not just sin, but the shame that came along with it.
For so long I had just kind of accepted the sin in my life and disregarded the impact it was having on my life. It is only when we fully accept God's grace that we can break free from the chains of sin. And in order to do this we have to come to the realization God's grace is greater than our sin. Only when we realize this can we experience freedom. God's grace will always be enough. It is up to us whether or not we accept it.
To truly live on fire for the Lord, we have to do multiple things.
Be intentional about getting in the Word daily
Pray daily
Ask God to reveal to you what hinders your walk with Him
Cut those things out of your life
Realize God's grace and be thankful for it
Live a life full of grace, not shame
Maybe, just maybe, if do all of these things we can live a life truly worth living.
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