My God

I was born and raised in a Christian family. By the grace of God, I responded to God’s invitation to have a personal relationship with God in my youth and committed myself to live as Jesus’ disciple for the rest of my life. At times, life had become unbearable difficult, but God enabled me to hold steadfast on God’s love and mercy, and consequently, I have experienced God who faithfully provides for His children and His love that transcends all understanding. I continually seek to deepen my relationship with Jesus Christ and place my trust in Him in my daily life. I can testify the work of the Holy Spirit in me which transforms my heart each day. The Word of God changes my perspectives, relationships, and attitudes and desires so that…

response. In May of 2016, my husband of nearly eight years chose to walk out on me; with a comment of “I’m done, I can’t do this anymore,” he walked out our door and with that my life will never be the same. I cannot control my husband’s choices or actions nor do I really want to, instead I have my own choices to make and those I can control. I have spent the past several months growing closer in my relationship with God, asking him to use me and seeking his will for my life. He has been so…

believe in my heart that the effort that you have put forth assist each child in maturing in the ways of the lord. Truth be told, the more I am serving the children the more evident my relationship between God and me becomes. It is my belief that not only are the children benefitting from our servitude but we are made better because of it. It helps us in our walk with the lord in so many ways. It allows us at least myself to pay more attention to God’s love (i.e. Mercy,…

definition of God. More than that actually. Most of my family’s life was spent in the Midwest. Ohio to be exact. While my parents and I were hopping around the whole United States on military standby, the rest of my family on my dad’s side was, has been, and always will be, a part of a very cult like denomination of Christian church. When we finally settled in Ohio, after my dad got released, we began regularly attending it. There I learned a very different God than I know today. There I was…

intricately unique and deeply loved by God. Psalm 139:13-14 says “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful; I know that full well.” God has blessed me, personally, with strengths which define my meaning and purpose. These strengths are tools that I will use best when I follow God’s will for my life. My top five strengths are belief, input, achiever, responsibility, and restorative. As I continue to pursue God’s will, these strengths will equip me to…

journey from being a sinner to being a man who wanted to turn his life over to God. In paragraph 26, Jonathan Edwards states, “I have sometimes had a sense of the excellent fullness of Christ” (Edwards 26). He realized that he knew the wondrous things that God could do in his life, but it seemed like he did not take the time to, in essence, smell the roses and take into account all of the creations, as mentioned in paragraph 7 such as “ the sun, moon, and stars etc..,”(Edwards 7 ). As mentioned…

The persona and God are implied as a broken pot and a tinker. The persona compares himself to a broken pot to express his broken heart. The persona is implied as a sinner, hence he is damaged and broken. The persona complains that God is being too gentle. God is only “knocke, breathe, shine and seeke to mend” (“Batter My Heart, Three-Person’d God” l 2) to try to help the persona. To knock is only being polite. Breathing is a simple involuntary action. Shine is just a light glimmer. Mending is…

. . what us gon sell?” (207). Celie’s exclamatory vocalisation of her fears is multi-layered. Celie addressed her first letters to God, a white haired, white man’s version who never really listened. Shug transforms Celie’s view of God and helps her realise that “God ain’t a he, or a she, but a It” (167), an It that exists in everything, is benevolent and does not regard their lesbian relationship as dirty. Smith describes Walker’s depiction of their relationship as a “disarming strategy of…

While typing this out I am sitting on a beautiful beach somewhere in Greece along the Aegean Sea. It 's easy to imagine scenes from the Odyssey or the Apostle Paul sailing up to bring the Good News. The view is one people would spend thousands of dollars to see but I get it for free. I am stranded in Greece - oh, woe is me . How did I end up camping on the beach in Greece? Let me tell you about the goodness of God during the last three months: Three months ago I was given the opportunity…

detail that God revealed to mankind in the beginning can bring anyone to their knees, and when men search for the beauty of God in this marvelous world they cannot withstand the amazement that fills them and cannot help but be moved to action, fulfilling their purpose of caring for this world more and more. William Blake in his poem “The Tyger”, William Wordsworth in his piece of writing “The World Is Too Much With Us”, and John Donne in his poem “Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God” together…