Oh, the ol' intro post. How I do struggle.
What I must write, I do agonize over;
what I desire to write, escapes me.
What I shall write, is this:
What do I believe? I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the only Son of the one true and living God. He is fully man and is fully God. He lived a sinless life on this earth just about 2000 years ago, and died at the hands of His own people with the assistance of Gentiles to fulfill prophecies foretold in the Bible. His suffering was a punishment he wrongfully suffered in order to pay the price of sin, of my sin. An innocent man, dying to pay the price for the guilty who would accept the gift. He was a dead man for 3 days and nights, after which He arose bodily from the grave, thus obtaining victory over death, and because of what He did, those of us that put our faith in what He did can and will become partakers of the promises the Father has fore ordained for us. Thinks like salvation from our sin, eternal life with God in heaven, the Holy Spirit within us to seal us until that day that we will be with the Father, equipping to deal with life on this planet and forgiveness so long as we ask for it when we stumble and fall.
My salvation came about when I was around 8 years old, I believe. I remember being concerned that I wasn't sure of my salvation. I had a talk with one of the men from the church I was attending and I vaguely remember him talking to me about how to be saved and I remember thinking that I already know about all that.
For years I struggled with doubt. I joined the Marines out of high school and backslid, though all the while, even through doubt and backsliding I never denied Christ or fully turned from Him, though because of doubt, if it were possible, I would have gotten re-saved every few months because I'd always hit this kind of crisis point where I feared so much that I was not saved, I'd ask Jesus to save me again. I know now that my salvation rests in the faithfulness of God and in trusting in Him to keep His word to me. Through all that, I kind of half heartedly served Him and fit Him in with the rest of what I wanted to do.
Then, a few years ago, He got a hold of me. I was pretty heavily into online gaming. To put it bluntly, it had become my god. I was at church one Wednesday night that really began to convict me of my need to serve Him better. That night I prayed on the way home for God to give me strength in what I had to do. I got home and uninstalled all the games from my computer and packed them all up in a box.
After that day, God has been faithful (not that He ever wasn't faithful) and continues to help me to grow in Him. We all stumble at times, but I don't doubt Him any more. Times of testing come, as they do for us all, but He is my strength when I am weak. He alone is my rock and my salvation (Psalm 62:2).
As for me, I'm married, this year being our 11 year anniversary, have 4 kids, and I play the bass guitar in the worship team at my church.
Anything else you'd like to know?
What I must write, I do agonize over;
what I desire to write, escapes me.
What I shall write, is this:
What do I believe? I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the only Son of the one true and living God. He is fully man and is fully God. He lived a sinless life on this earth just about 2000 years ago, and died at the hands of His own people with the assistance of Gentiles to fulfill prophecies foretold in the Bible. His suffering was a punishment he wrongfully suffered in order to pay the price of sin, of my sin. An innocent man, dying to pay the price for the guilty who would accept the gift. He was a dead man for 3 days and nights, after which He arose bodily from the grave, thus obtaining victory over death, and because of what He did, those of us that put our faith in what He did can and will become partakers of the promises the Father has fore ordained for us. Thinks like salvation from our sin, eternal life with God in heaven, the Holy Spirit within us to seal us until that day that we will be with the Father, equipping to deal with life on this planet and forgiveness so long as we ask for it when we stumble and fall.
My salvation came about when I was around 8 years old, I believe. I remember being concerned that I wasn't sure of my salvation. I had a talk with one of the men from the church I was attending and I vaguely remember him talking to me about how to be saved and I remember thinking that I already know about all that.
For years I struggled with doubt. I joined the Marines out of high school and backslid, though all the while, even through doubt and backsliding I never denied Christ or fully turned from Him, though because of doubt, if it were possible, I would have gotten re-saved every few months because I'd always hit this kind of crisis point where I feared so much that I was not saved, I'd ask Jesus to save me again. I know now that my salvation rests in the faithfulness of God and in trusting in Him to keep His word to me. Through all that, I kind of half heartedly served Him and fit Him in with the rest of what I wanted to do.
Then, a few years ago, He got a hold of me. I was pretty heavily into online gaming. To put it bluntly, it had become my god. I was at church one Wednesday night that really began to convict me of my need to serve Him better. That night I prayed on the way home for God to give me strength in what I had to do. I got home and uninstalled all the games from my computer and packed them all up in a box.
After that day, God has been faithful (not that He ever wasn't faithful) and continues to help me to grow in Him. We all stumble at times, but I don't doubt Him any more. Times of testing come, as they do for us all, but He is my strength when I am weak. He alone is my rock and my salvation (Psalm 62:2).
As for me, I'm married, this year being our 11 year anniversary, have 4 kids, and I play the bass guitar in the worship team at my church.
Anything else you'd like to know?
