My College Essay
Hey guys!
I hope you all are having a fantastic start to your week! Any day that I start with getting to be with the Lord and in His Word is always a great day! This week I submitted my application for CCU Whoowhoo! With that said, I had two essays to write for it and I wanted to share my first one with you all today. I was asked on how I trusted Jesus as my Saviour and trusted in Him, and also what my relationship with God was like. It was not an easy one to write to be completely honest, there was so much to say but also too personal to feel I couldn’t fully convey the impact God has had in my life. After some time and prayer this is what the Lord put on my heart to write, I hope it can be a blessing:
When I was 5 years old, I was sitting in a Wednesday Night Service listening to my dad preach to, at the time, 10 people that were in our congregation, about the difference between Hell and Heaven and the Eternal gift that God gave when His Son Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins. Even though we deserve punishment for our sins, God gave us a way to be with Him. He chose to love us even when we don't deserve it! When I got home that night, I asked my dad how to receive this gift he kept talking about. We started going through the Romans Road, and I was very impatient after a few verses I yelled, "Dad, do you want me to go to hell? Then let me get saved right now!" He laughed and asked me if I fully understood and wanted to believe! After I told him I was ready, we bowed our heads together and I prayed the best prayer of my life and asked Jesus to come into my heart.
I love that God is so personal and that He desires a relationship with every individual. He wants me to talk with Him. I love that time in the morning to wake up and just speak with Him and spend time in His presence.
As a pastor's daughter, I have taken advantage of this amazing opportunity I have been given. I grew up attending every church service, at every church activity, and helping with any ministry that needed the help. There were moments when I struggled, especially during high school, because I wanted to fit in and have friends that I related to instead of being seen as the awkward religious homeschooler. Then someone special came into my life, one of my closest friends, McKennah Carter. I was amazed at her passion for her faith and her close relationship with God. It made me want to strive to have that same relationship as she had. She was a soul winning, Jesus loving warrior, that God decided she was so special that she got to go to Heaven earlier. After years of fighting cancer but still praising the Lord through the fight, she was ready to be with her Savior. She changed my whole way of thinking about this opportunity. I thought of it as a chore growing up and something that separated me from having a social life than from what it really was, an opportunity! An opportunity to grow closer to God. An opportunity to be a blessing, an opportunity to minister to other girls who don’t have a good Christian family that prioritized God!
God has been with me my whole life, even when I haven't wanted to be close to Him. I know that time is short on this Earth and with this time I have, I want to make a difference for God and show others the love He has poured out on me. I pray that at the end of my life, I look back and see that at least one soul, if not many more, will be touched because of my walk with the Lord and being willing to be a chosen vessel for Him.
"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."
-Philippians 4:11
Sincerely,
Bella <3
