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| God Posted June.29 I’ve believed in God for as long as I can remember. My friend Brit thinks we created God in our own image, and I guess there’s some truth in that, but beyond the gods we imaginatively create to serve us is a real God (notice the capital G) who created us in his image. I’m not here to put down anyone else’s beliefs, and I hope you won’t put down mine, but I’m a Christian, and I’m not ashamed of it. What I am ashamed of is how I’ve messed up, especially this past year. I know I’m forgiven, but I also know I hurt my parents and let down my friends. I was a very bad example of what a Christian is  supposed to be.You can read about the stuff I was into in my other posts, so I won’t repeat myself too much here. But even when I was doing drugs and binge drinking and cutting myself, deep inside I knew there was a right road for my life and also a wrong road, and I’d taken a wrong turn and was lost. Being lost was a bad experience, but now it’s actually a good experience, ‘cuz now I understand people who are lost and kinda know it. Because that was me. When I was lost I cried every night, and I asked God to help me, but I kept doing the same stuff the next day. Eventually God did help me, but I needed to hit the bottom and realize the binge drinking and drugs and cutting were never going to make me happy. I realized I had some good friends and family and a great youth group, so there was no need to be mad at my birth mother for not being a very good mother. Yeah, I’d learned all the Bible stories in Sunday school and youth group, but the thing I realize now is how God’s grace works. The Bible says “we all sin in many ways.”* That is so true! And sin separates us from being close with God. God loves us and wants to fix it, but we have to ask him. This is what John 3:16 is really all about.
Grace means we don’t really deserve God’s love, but he loves us anyway, and saves us if we ask in Jesus’ name, and will invite us into his heaven someday. Personally, I can’t wait! But for now, he gives us the strength to stand up to temptation, like drugs or drinking to be popular, and do what’s right.
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