How God Changed My Life Essay

*Opening thesis*

Growing up I never really gave a second thought to the Bible. In our Roman Catholic household, my family believed in God, but that belief never left the pews on the occasional visits to Sunday morning mass services. All my life, I lived as a Christian atheist, claiming to be a follower of Christ but never living like one. But on Black Friday of 2016, in my living my everyday sin-filled life, out of nowhere, I felt strange unsettling in me, conviction in my heart concerning my sin. Somehow I knew God wanted to speak to me. I picked up a small New Testament Bible that I had hardly read and randomly opened to Luke 9 and read, "If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it but, whoever loses his life because of Me will save it." Then I felt something say to me, "You claim that you follow God but are you living by this?" Then, a deep conviction came over me. I repented and dedicated my life to Christ.

After this experience, I began to grow a deep hunger for the Bible. Little did I know how much I would change from this deep hunger.

The Word of God

I have learned how to have joy in suffering, to see purpose in the mundane of life and to have peace in trials. For instance, during the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, my neighborhood did not have power. Life for everyone cut to the bare minimum; things got difficult and people became short tempered. However in this, I lived out the truth of 2 Corinthians 12:9 and experienced Christ’s sufficiency through my trial. Even though life around me was unusual and no one knew when normal life would return, I found myself already living in a perfect peace. I had Jesus and He was enough for me. Our morning meeting times through the Word became necessary as bread as I experienced a peace that surpassed both physical discomfort and human