#100project

When I reach 100 followers I'm gonna make drabbles. Idol + word drabbles to be exact.

Profession: Clinical Social Worker

Years keeping it 100: 33 years

WHO IS JESUS TO YOU?

To me Jesus is love personified.  When I think about what he’s done for me; dying for me, my sins, just the fact that when he was on earth he showed us what it means to be compassionate & to really be loving to others & just seeing what he’s done in my own life, I know that I am loved.  After years of really not understanding what that meant, just knowing that there’s someone who loves me unconditionally, it really means a lot to know that I serve a God who is love.

HOW DID YOU BECOME CONVICTED JESUS IS THE REAL DEAL, THAT IS WHO HE SAID HE WAS?

Ok so I have two parts. So the first one is, I remember back in 2000 when my father kind of walked out of my family’s life & we were in such a bad situation at that time.  We all knew the Lord, we all new Jesus, I knew him from a child growing up.  I can honestly tell you that looking back, I don’t know how we made it through.  When I really think about it, I can attest to the fact that he [Jesus] was there for us, in many ways.  When he said “I will never leave you or forsake you,” that verse really became real to me.  Just looking back at every moment where we had a lack, he made up the difference.  Every time I felt as if I didn’t really know what to do, he always provided & always made a way.  And so that really cemented my understanding of who he was as a provider.  The Lord really keeps & satisfies, even in the midst of hardship.  

And the second thing is, I remember watching The Passion of the Christ for the first time in movie theaters.  And movie that really broke me.  Like I said, I was saved at a young age & I knew Jesus.  But, to see what he actually did, on that magnitude that was never filmed before, it really hit home; the sacrifice that he really made for me.  And so I really was convicted at that point to really understand that he is was who he said he was.  That he really came to die for our sins.  And he committed to that for us.  

WHY DO PEOPLE NEED JESUS?

People need Jesus because people are lost & people are in sin & people need a way out.  And Jesus is the only answer.  We were all born in sin & shaped in iniquity.  We were all basically on our way to hell.  We didn’t do anything other than be born to be sinners because of what Adam did in the beginning.  But, Jesus made a way by dying for our sins & rising again so that we can have eternal life if we can accept the truth of the Gospel, that he came to die for our sins & cleanse us.  I feel like many of us feel like we can do without him, but in the end, it doesn’t really matter what your life looks like.  We are all sinners.  And until you believe in Jesus you will not be able to see Heaven, you will not be able to see Jesus, you will not be able to claim eternal life.  And so we need Jesus.  We need salvation.  We need the Lord & savior.  There is really no way around that.

WHAT IS THE ONE THING ABOUT JEUSUS YOU WISH EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD OR KNEW ABOUT JESUS?