When I Gave My Life to Jesus, My Life Fell Apart

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or me to appreciate the beauty behind the despair that I suffered in those moments.</p><p id="ce4d">Jesus not only carried me through the most painful trials in my life, which consisted of divorce, death, rejection from loved ones, and spiritual warfare (to name a few,) but he was using all of that to shape and mold me into who I am today.</p><blockquote id="39b2"><p><b>If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved</b> — Romans 10:9 (NIV)</p></blockquote><p id="3e1b">To live with Jesus, we have to die for him first. We have to die to the desires of our flesh before we can live with him spiritually, as a new creation. I only understood this as I was going through it. I had to live out this next verse before I could appreciate the gift of dying to myself:</p><blockquote id="4124"><p><b>I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me–</b> Galatians 2:20 (NIV)</p></blockquote><p id="cf2a">Looking back, all those ‘terrible’ events that happened, served a greater purpose. I couldn’t move forward in my walk with the Lord whilst carrying a load of dead weight. There were people and situations that I simply couldn’t take with me but if I had my way, I defini

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tely would have tried. God knew better though and I’m grateful every day for who and what He removed because he replaced it all with more than I could ever imagine.</p><p id="e5df">If you are currently going through trials and tribulations in your own life, I want to encourage you to keep trusting in Him. God has a plan for each of our lives that is greater than anything we could ever comprehend. We just need to let Him pull out the weeds before He can plant new seeds.</p><blockquote id="0e33"><p><b>And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you</b> — 1 Peter 5:10 (ESV)</p></blockquote><p id="aaba"><b><i>Thank you for reading :-)</i></b></p><div id="9533" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/hearing-gods-voice-5cc170a24f06"> <div> <div> <h2>Hearing God’s Voice</h2> <div><h3>How I learnt to hear God over my own thoughts and trust His guidance for my life</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*TPrUce6MJtjl020o)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

When I Gave My Life to Jesus, My Life Fell Apart

Nothing was ever going to be the same

Leaving the new age for Jesus was the best thing I did. I was rescued, free, and forgiven. I assumed that as a new Christian, my life would change for the better, but in fact, it completely fell apart.

While I was liberated spiritually, my worldly life shattered. Everything that could have gone wrong, did. Becoming a Christian resulted in heartbreak, grief, and a lot of confusion. Although pain and fear consumed me, it became apparent that I had one thing I could be certain would remain in my life when others left, and that was Jesus.

Amid the emotional turmoil, I was blind to what God was doing behind the scenes. Only in retrospect, I can look back with a heart full of gratitude because what I thought was going wrong, He was actually putting right.

My prayer life consisted of “Why did you let this happen? I left my old life for you, so why are you doing this to me?” It felt like punishment, and it took over a year for me to appreciate the beauty behind the despair that I suffered in those moments.

Jesus not only carried me through the most painful trials in my life, which consisted of divorce, death, rejection from loved ones, and spiritual warfare (to name a few,) but he was using all of that to shape and mold me into who I am today.

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved — Romans 10:9 (NIV)

To live with Jesus, we have to die for him first. We have to die to the desires of our flesh before we can live with him spiritually, as a new creation. I only understood this as I was going through it. I had to live out this next verse before I could appreciate the gift of dying to myself:

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me– Galatians 2:20 (NIV)

Looking back, all those ‘terrible’ events that happened, served a greater purpose. I couldn’t move forward in my walk with the Lord whilst carrying a load of dead weight. There were people and situations that I simply couldn’t take with me but if I had my way, I definitely would have tried. God knew better though and I’m grateful every day for who and what He removed because he replaced it all with more than I could ever imagine.

If you are currently going through trials and tribulations in your own life, I want to encourage you to keep trusting in Him. God has a plan for each of our lives that is greater than anything we could ever comprehend. We just need to let Him pull out the weeds before He can plant new seeds.

And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you — 1 Peter 5:10 (ESV)

Thank you for reading :-)