Here is a story about when God showed up in my life.
College is an interesting time, one filled with highs and lows. It’s a joyous time that can be filled with mistakes, but also some of the best memories you will never forget. Most of that time was truly the best time of my life until it started to unravel and fall apart. Spring of 2015 was probably the lowest time in my life, even until this day.
My mom was struggling in her health, I had recently been sexually assaulted and the church/ campus ministry I was apart of had disbanded. I was alone and scared and really didn’t know where to go from here. So that Fall, I decided to fast and pray. Through that time, God reassured me he was still there for me and that he wasn’t going to leave me.
He reassured me through these three scriptures:
In 1 John 1:5-7 (NIV) he told me that I was still pure. “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”
In 2 John 1:4-6 (NIV) he taught me that I was STILL loved. “It has given me great joy to find some of your children walking in the truth, just as the Father commanded us. And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning. I ask that we love one another. And this is love: that we walk in obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.”
And in 1 John 2:28-29 (NIV) he TOLD me that Christ still resides in me. “And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.”
