In the Gospel I am made free

Hey everyone, its been a minuet since I have written consistently to you all. I'm really sorry about that but just over this week I've been really reflecting on God's grace and mercy in my life.

Good Friday is one of my all time favorite holidays and it just makes me so thankful and in need of Jesus even more. For whoever is reading this I just want to tell you an amazing story! I've already shared with you my testimony and how God worked in my life to save me but this story is even better. His story. Its all about Him and he's perfect plan to redeem his children and call them home home one day!

Since from the beginning when God created the world he made the birds of the air, fish of the sea, beast of the fields, the sun and the moon, Adam and Eve. He called it all good. I mean really anything God touches is beautiful. God had gave Adam and Eve this beautiful garden to live in and told them to enjoy it but to not eat from the tree of good and evil..pretty simple huh. You just don't eat it. Then here comes the twist in the story...the serpent (Satan) then comes and tempts Eve telling her that if she eats from that tree her and Adam will become just like God knowing good and evil. So Eve was deceived and ate the fruit and gave some to her husband as well and just like that sin entered the world. The perfect world that the lord had made was now broken, full of sin and hurt and pain and wrongdoing. Our God though being perfect in everything he does and knowing what he created and what his plan was for the world made a perfect plan to redeem everything! Drum roll.....this is where the story gets good. God sent his son to be born of a virgin to live a perfect and complete life to come to teach and turn people to repentance and save us from eternal damn nation. Jesus is his name and he is the greatest hero in all the world. He came knowing that one day he would bare all the sins of the world and die, he knew that it would be painful and the journey would be gruesome but he came anyways knowing what the fathers will was for him! We didn't deserve that kind of love in anyway. I mean when Jesus was here walking the earth that his father created people hated him wanted him gone...I mean for goodness sake they crucified him. Nailed him to a cross he had to carry up to Calvary, he wore a crown of thorns. Jesus was the most loved and hated person that ever lived. He came for the sinner not the righteous. Praise God that in three days he rose again....the grave could not hold Him. If the grave could hold him that would not be good for us. Praise Jesus for loving us so much to come, die, rise, and reign in our life!!

That is kinda a very small story of the gospel but yeah. Guys Jesus has made my free and because of the gospel I can now live for him. I am such a sinful person. I mean almost everyone you meet will put on a good appearance for you and act like such a good person. I'm pretty sure people think I'm this perfect person that doesn't screw up or make mistakes and acts perfect in every way but I'm her to tell you that that is not true in anyway. I am so sinful, I'm selfish, I'm prideful, I'm lazy, I'm needy I just want everything to go my way all the time. Life is not like that at all and I totally know what that is like now. I'm happy for most of the part but you don't know what goes on in my heart. Jesus came to save people like me. Me of all people, he came to rescue me from myself and to reconcile my life to him. Jesus is the solution and the reason for everything I do.. I could not do this life with out him....I tried it for over 16 years and I failed every time. I still fail and I still screw up but Jesus has saved my life and so I no longer I'm bound to sin and hell. Jesus took all my sins to the cross with him , all the sins I did in the past the present and the future He took to the cross with Him so that I might be saved. Now isn't that just such a beautiful thing?!? You don't have to do anything to earn God's favor because He's already done everything that He needed to do to make you his. You don't have to do certain things or try and clean up your life first before coming to Him because it won't work and that'll take you forever if you try it. Come as you are. "Come all who are burdened and heavy laden and I will give you rest"...Jesus is a man of love. He died for YOU...yes YOU...with all your failures and insecurities and everything....he looked down and said I WANT YOU. The creator of the world wants YOU. No one more perfect in anyway wants you. I'm speaking these truths to myself right now as I write this to you all!! Let go of everything and cling to Jesus. Before Jesus saved my life I had a whole....and I tried to fill it with everything else in my life, sports, tv, friends, school, anything but still at the end of the day I went to bed empty....But once Jesus started working in my heart and changing me that whole was filled. We were made for Jesus. We were made to be in company with him. We were made to love Him with all our mind, heart and soul. Stop running from him and trying to fill that whole in your life that only he can fill. Seek after Him...read his word because that is the very thing that will change your life for the better. You can trust me on that one! I love you all so Much and I want you to know the God that I know..to serve Him with everything you have. You're life will change trust me on that but its for the best...God is a God not only of love but He is for you the 'rules' you could say he has isn't to be a kill joy but to protect you. I want you all to understand that. God IS for you. If God is for you who can be against you?? Really tho.

I just love resting in the gospel and praising Jesus for what he has done in my life and what he continues to do. I still struggle everyday, don't get me wrong but I have so much more hope knowing that Jesus isn't done with me yet and that He is the one who is in control of my destiny. He is the master of my fate not myself and even if I could be I wouldn't want to because I'd mess my life up so bad. Jesus is the lover of my soul the one that my heart longs for. One day I will see my savior face to face. I can't wait until that day but until then I'm hear to do His work and share the gospel of his undying love and grace toward his people. The gospel has set me free and I am no longer bound to sin. I Am Free. Freedom is such a beautiful thing...I am no longer a slave but a Child of God. Praise Jesus!!!

Please I beg of you all to seek after Jesus . To look to His word and find truth and peace in His arms only. No one else. I want you all to have a life lived for Jesus!

Forever&Always

P.S. I am SO sorry for such a late post. Once school is over I should be able to write more. Love you all!