Southeastern University Entrance Essay
2 Corinthians 12:8-9 says, "Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me, But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
Growing up, I never questioned the existence of God because church was all I knew. My older sister and I spent countless hours with my grandmother at church helping in any way that we knew how and we never missed a service; in those services I heard testimonies of so many men and women who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one other than God moved in a miraculous way in their lives and I just knew he had to be real. Not until I …show more content…
For the life of me I couldn't understand why the same God that the members of my church were praising was the same God that let all of those awful things happen to me. Fast forward to the summer of my freshman year of high school, when I had drifted so far from God I couldn't recognize the person staring back at me in the mirror anymore; I wasted so much of my time and energy being angry at a God that so desperately wanted me to know how much he loved and understood all the hurt, sadness, and anger I was holding onto. I will never forget the day I walked into church having no clue what God had planned for me that night. It was that night that I finally chose to forgive the man who caused me so much hurt, I chose to forgive my grandmother who I blamed for the void in my life that I tried filling with things that only provided temporary fulfillment and I chose to accept the grace, forgiveness, and peace God had been trying to give me my whole
2 Corinthians 12:8-9 says, "Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me, But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me."
Growing up, I never questioned the existence of God because church was all I knew. My older sister and I spent countless hours with my grandmother at church helping in any way that we knew how and we never missed a service; in those services I heard testimonies of so many men and women who knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that no one other than God moved in a miraculous way in their lives and I just knew he had to be real. Not until I …show more content…
For the life of me I couldn't understand why the same God that the members of my church were praising was the same God that let all of those awful things happen to me. Fast forward to the summer of my freshman year of high school, when I had drifted so far from God I couldn't recognize the person staring back at me in the mirror anymore; I wasted so much of my time and energy being angry at a God that so desperately wanted me to know how much he loved and understood all the hurt, sadness, and anger I was holding onto. I will never forget the day I walked into church having no clue what God had planned for me that night. It was that night that I finally chose to forgive the man who caused me so much hurt, I chose to forgive my grandmother who I blamed for the void in my life that I tried filling with things that only provided temporary fulfillment and I chose to accept the grace, forgiveness, and peace God had been trying to give me my whole