#whyjesus

People who hear that I’ve become a Christian often ask me, why? What happened?Here’s my short answer.

I became a Christian because I believe it's true.

I believe that we were created with love, for purpose, for relationship with our Creator and with each other. I believe that the one who created me, is my Father in heaven. I believe He is all-powerful, all-knowing, righteous, but also loving, gracious, joyous, creative, and many other things that will take more than one post to address.

I believe that my life is more than just studying to get into university, then studying more to get a job, then working to get money, then working more to get financial stability, then working more to live a comfortable life.

I believe my life is also more than just making friends, belonging with a crowd, earning likes on fb/insta, looking a certain way, travelling, eating or posting aesthetic pictures.

I even believe my life is more than being healthy, getting fit, eating well, having a good body or flawless skin.

I also believe that life is more than being nice to people, helping people, and loving people. I believe we don’t just live to be a morally good person.

I believe life is not about what we do, more than who we are. Because my identity is one thing that cannot change.  I spent a large part of my pre-Jesus life trying to create and find my identity in what I do and how 'good' I am. But is my identity just a list of the things I'm good at, interested in, or have achieved and done?

Because to me that wasn’t enough.

There was this hole within me that couldn’t be filled. Knowing that no matter what I did, there was no real motivation to change, and a blurry image of what I'm supposed to even change into. That standard seemed to change from day to day, week to week, person to person.

I mean who decided that being nice to people was good anyways? Why do we even need friends, or share our things? I didn't really get it.

But then getting to know Jesus started to change everything. There is something  powerful knowing you were created with intention and love. Christianity just made so much sense not only because of the evidence, but when you personally experience that realisation that you have an infinite value that nothing you, or some one else could ever take away value from, or add value to.

I know my purpose now. I've found Truth. I have this supernatural, overwhelming desire to change to be more like Jesus. In other words; to be better, to be good, to be who I was really created to be. There really was a standard that existed this whole time.

This life is knowing God. This life is entirely about the one who created me and how He redeems the world. To be chosen to be a part of a life-changing story. To be a part of a family who isn’t afraid to admit their brokenness, but to embrace it, knowing that there is a God who sees all of it but still loves all of it.

I believe that I was created to work hard, to strive for the glory of God, to love others, to share our stories, to live with joy and hope because we know we have eternity. I don’t believe that we work so hard, study so hard, try so hard to do good so that we can live a comfortable life and then have everything fade and die. To me there is no longer joy nor purpose in that. Good thing it's untrue anyways.

I really, wholeheartedly believe that we all have inherent worth. I can't find another reason that can explain why we value human life so much. Except that we weren’t created by accident. Not without real purpose and not to live just to die one day.

Sure, maybe to some people, there still isn’t enough evidence to show that our God is the only one true God. Maybe the stories in the Bible seem too fictional and supernatural to be true witness accounts. But for me, I have found that nothing makes more sense than the Christian Truth. I mean when I think about this body I own, how it heals itself and how everything in this world/galaxy/universe even came into existence, I don't think I can think of a logical process of how this happened that involves absolutely nothing supernatural. I have come to accept that not everything can be logically/rationally explained.

I really don’t believe Christianity is a religion or some emotional help/support, but I believe it is the reality we've lived, are living and will continue to live.

So this is why I choose to follow Jesus. I don't see a point living a life apart from what's true.

If you are a Christian, I want to ask you, why are you a Christian?If you are not, I also want to ask you, why are you not a Christian?