Charlotte
Charlotte
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God had given the ultimate sacrifice to save me from a life without purpose...
I grew up in a Christian family, regularly attending church and youth group so I’ve always had a knowledge about who God is. However, one Sunday school I remember being struck by something my Sunday-school teacher said. She told us that even if we had grown up in a Christian family, that didn’t automatically mean we were too. I was desperately fearful of death and hell, so this was the moment of realisation that I needed to actually figure this out for myself.
When I was sixteen, I decided to ask one of my youth leaders if I could do some Bible studies which could help me engage my Bible knowledge with my heart. The first study we did was all about the basics of who God was and what He had done for me, but I struggled to understand it in a new and different way. We then moved onto a study about what it looked like to be a Christian, and that was when I realised to ‘feel’ different, or be different, I needed to live with God as King over my life. It sunk in that God had given the ultimate sacrifice to save me from a life without purpose, and the very least I could do was to live a life with Him and for Him.
God has continued to guide me through the big and small things in life, and most prominently in my relationship with my now husband. After a brief time of dating at university, I ended our relationship and moved to St Albans where I started my first job. It wasn’t long before I unexpectedly lost my job in a career I was excited to start, I found myself questioning God’s plan in my life. But only days later I was reunited with my boyfriend, who in God’s perfect timing had decided to return home not far from where I was living. This was the beginning of me trusting in God’s plan for my life.