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A Personal Devotional by Debbie Hall
I’m 16 years old and I’m in the eleventh grade. I started attending Wayne Hills in 2002 and joined in 2004. I’m the last out of 8 children and the only one who goes to church. I was raised in a Pentecostal Church until I was 9 and that’s when we quit attending.
I accepted Christ when I was 8 because that’s when I understood that there was a bigger meaning behind why Jesus had died. I knew that His death had significance but I didn’t comprehend that one thing lead to another in a sort of chain like reaction to the rest of forever. I never knew that one Man could have so much power and I knew that since He died for me then He would and could do anything for me.
Overall with Christ in my life I genuinely am happy and I want to be a good person and do good things not only for myself but for others and not only to represent myself but to represent Christ through me.
With Christ I have managed to succeed from falling into the temptations of youth. I don’t want to be a part of anything that could possible cause me to slip in my faith or for me to cause someone else to slip in their faith.
My friends come to me with question they have about God and the Bible. And more then one of them have told me that they look up to me. And if they saw me doing something that’s wrong then they might think it to be right and I’m not trying to lead anyone astray.
Persecution does happen to people my age and I know that it is just a test to make me grow stronger in my faith. Some of the people at my school think that its funny to try to make me do things that are ungodly and I just learn to live with the fact that everything in life isn’t going to be easy and that I have to stand up for my beliefs at all times.
I know that I might be the only representation of Jesus that some people might see so, I ask God to help me with my decision making so that I won’t be a bad representation to others about Him.
I’m thankful that God is a big part in my life and that I have a church that I can call home. And that I can go each and everyday knowing that God loves me and I’m going to Heaven not because of some huge thing I did but for what Jesus did for me.
God is the biggest thing that has happened to me. Without Him who knows what I might have become. But with Him I understand the true meaning of beauty, and I know that I never have to settle or change myself to do what the world believes to be right and that I can follow Christ and never go wrong.
Brenda Price, Waynesboro, VA
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