If You Could Erase Certain Memories, Would You?
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2012/08/22 00:30:49
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Valerie© 2012/08/22 13:22:17
I was a kid, when I accepted Jesus as lord ... and so i thought but you see i never really had an understanding of God and who Jesus was really so that was not a true conversion.
I thought I was a good person but I was lying to myself. Having no spirit my I became an Atheist, I was a real Jerk growing up in a home not with my Parents, but with Great grandparents.
I came to a point that I wanted nothing to do with God, I use to curse him and throw his Bible across the room and i lived my life the way I wanted to.
When I was in the Navy, I was in the Gulf on Combat duty, I was a navy Photographer and I was going up the steps from the Bridge to the Signal Bridge on the USS Anchorage and some how I fell back and flipped 15 feet onto a hard metal deck, messing up my back, my wrist, and broke every bone in my nose.
When they took me to the Doctors on the other ship, the Doctor said " There is no way you should be alive" but God had other plans for me and you know not being saved, had I died, I would have been in Hell.
God never gave up on me and there came a time when I was I was asking what was the meaning of life and was God real. I searched and i read the Bible and i found him
And although Everything I e...
I was a kid, when I accepted Jesus as lord ... and so i thought but you see i never really had an understanding of God and who Jesus was really so that was not a true conversion.
I thought I was a good person but I was lying to myself. Having no spirit my I became an Atheist, I was a real Jerk growing up in a home not with my Parents, but with Great grandparents.
I came to a point that I wanted nothing to do with God, I use to curse him and throw his Bible across the room and i lived my life the way I wanted to.
When I was in the Navy, I was in the Gulf on Combat duty, I was a navy Photographer and I was going up the steps from the Bridge to the Signal Bridge on the USS Anchorage and some how I fell back and flipped 15 feet onto a hard metal deck, messing up my back, my wrist, and broke every bone in my nose.
When they took me to the Doctors on the other ship, the Doctor said " There is no way you should be alive" but God had other plans for me and you know not being saved, had I died, I would have been in Hell.
God never gave up on me and there came a time when I was I was asking what was the meaning of life and was God real. I searched and i read the Bible and i found him
And although Everything I ever did in the past is forgiven, I still wish that I had done things different But you know what?
Heaven will be filled with all sorts of Sinners... Yes that's true but Sinners saved by the Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross
But as a former Atheist, Never again do i ever want to return to that. Jesus means more to me than anything else in the whole world
I found Him, and He's only a Prayer away God is real You can't work to earn a way into Heaven, you can't be good enough, Attending Church won't save you, or even having a few facts about God.
How then? Simple: The bible says we are all sinners and that we have a wall between us and God that wall is sin because God is Holy. How do we bring that wall down? By asking Jesus to forgive us of our sins and by repenting and turning away from them and trusting Jesus in Faith that He died on the cross and rose from the dead for us.
And making him our own Lord and Master. When you truly do that, His Holy Spirit will come in you and you will be saved and sealed. All sins you committed in the past are forgiven, and in the Present and future as well. But we confess daily acknowledging that He forgives.
I can tell you as a former atheist, I thought I would never believe in God. And I thought once that those that did were idiots, and fools, but it was not them, It was me.
Believe me, Jesus loves you and if you call on him, He will forgive you. Does that mean that life will be filled with Peace? No, but the difference is that when we go through those valleys of trials, Jesus is with us.