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"So what we get high. So what we smoke weed. We're just having fun. we don't care who sees!"

This is the mentality that is constantly thrown and beat into our minds as young Americans aka Millennials aka Generation X.  Living as a Christian in 2016 America is one of the most interesting things to do! Every day is a different day and every day there is a different battle. I am 22 years old and in June 2015 I gave my life to Christ.  Prior to, I was what people would consider a "normal" young adult. I was going into my last semester of college, I had an internship, I had friends who I hung out with every weekend and I had a family who I loved. I went to church on Sundays and even taught as a Sunday School teacher. My life seemed pretty good at the moment and I thought I was going to Heaven because I had for the most part tried to be a "good" person.

Then I joined a young adult bible study at my church and everything changed. I began to see people my age be on fire for Christ. They had given up these things of the world to chase God and live the way He intended us to live and they were HAPPY! No they did not drink, have sex, do drugs, curse, listen to trap music lol or anything like that and they still enjoyed life. I got curious as to who these people were and how were they happy.  Earlier in that year I experienced a really bad breakup that I began to get over around June. Towards the end of that relationship, I knew it wasn't right. I knew I needed to get out of it and I began to pray to God that He would get me out of the relationship and draw me closer to Him and He did. He brought me to that bible study to save my life. I was drawn in by Him and this group of people and I never looked back. He changed my heart and mind. 

Now, the journey since June 2015 has been rough, the devil is real and he comes to kill, steal and destroy the people of God (John 10:10) But God has given His people the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy so that nothing by any means shall hurt us (Luke 10:18-19). Accepting that Jesus is real and is the ruler of our lives is one of the hardest things in life but also one of the easiest. Accepting is easy but what does that mean? It means that if you believe Jesus is real then everything He says in the bible is real and the way the Father has called us to live is real.  The hard part comes when it's time to separate from the world and join with Christ. I am not perfect at this act BUT I have seen all the glory of following Christ and not just the tangible blessings and experiences but the intangible blessings and experiences. The joy, peace, wholeness and glory found only in God. Far more glory than following the world and the fragile and it's ever changing trends.

The Lord has truly been blessing me throughout the last year and at the same time He has revealed characteristics about myself that are not like Him that I need to change. I appreciate the journey and am excited about everything the Lord is bringing forth especially through this blog and this is only the first post! So thank you for reading and I hope you stick on this journey with me.