Personal Narrative: Jesus Christ

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I often used to focus so much on myself when I shared my testimony, but over the past year I started to question why I did this. Over the years I have come to learn that my testimony is not about myself, but rather it testifies about the love, power and grace of the One who saved me, Jesus Christ. My salvation is fully reliant on Jesus and nothing I have done.
I was raised by two Christian parents, who deeply love the Lord. This was truly a blessing in my life, as I was exposed to the Bible and church at such a young age. At the age of five, I came to a simple knowledge of who God was. I knew I was a sinner and that because of my sins, I deserved hell, but by God’s grace and Jesus’ death on the cross, I had the opportunity for forgiveness of
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One of the biggest ways that I have grown spiritually is through my personal devotion time. When I was younger, my dad would lead devotions with my siblings and me, but my parents stressed the importance of having a personal devotion time on my own when I got older. I never took their words too seriously, because I did not understand how much I needed God’s Word daily. Throughout high school, I thought I was an okay person, because I was not living a life that I deemed to be wild. In many ways I was ranking sins in my mind and I became prideful over my outward good works. During my junior year of high school, I started to feel convicted over the necessity to have a personal devotion time. When I started having personal devotion time, God used the truth of His Word to convict me of many sins I had been blind to. One of the sins I had been blind to was my sinful patterns of legalism. I repented and asked God to forgive me and change me. With this came tremendous growth spiritually as God humbled me and began exposing more sin in my …show more content…
What this passage in Hebrews teaches me is that the race of life is going to be filled with sin, trials and temptation, but I can fix my eyes on Jesus and run to Him. The spiritual race of life is far greater than any physical race and the prize is far greater than any temporary reward on earth. As I continue to walk with Jesus, I am amazed that He never stops molding me and that He chooses to use someone like me. I want my life to be about glorifying Him and carrying out the Great Commission (Matthew

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