I knew that Jesus was God. I knew that He died on the cross to pay the price for my sin that I couldn’t pay. I knew that three days after he was crucified, he rose from the dead to create a way for me to have a relationship with God. I knew it, and I believed it. But that wasn’t enough. On December 5, 2002, when I was 13, I really began to think. Satan knows all that stuff about Jesus too. He was there and saw it all happen! I realized that I had no more relationship with God than Satan had. And that scared me. I knew that Satan was going to end up in hell, and I didn’t want to go there too. At that point I remembered 1 John 1:9, “If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” So on that day in December I asked Jesus Christ to be Lord of my life. I moved past knowledge into a relationship with God.

I was afraid of what everyone would think when I told them I had become a Christian because they all thought that I already was. But I shouldn’t have been scared; everyone was so happy for me! Life hasn’t been a piece of cake since then. I’ve struggled with a lot of things, but God is so faithful! When I was at my lowest point and just wishing everything would go away, God gave me a peace that said, “No, I’m not finished with you yet.” And He has brought me through everything. I have a joy that frankly doesn’t always seem to make sense to people who don’t know God. But I am best friends with the Savior of the world and Creator of the Universe, and he is always with me!