Before Jesus Changed My Life

I spent 18 years worshipping things that I thought were good, but they weren’t Jesus. I have the best parents ever, they love the Lord and made it known to us our whole life as me and my siblings were all brought up in the church. From a young age, I always felt so attached to a “good job” or even achieving things while not receiving glory, I was worshipping a work ethic, good deeds, having “good” morals, being a good guy, etc. They are all great things, but they amount to nothing without Christ.

How Jesus Changed My Life

In my life of worshipping the grind, praise, affirmation, and how others viewed me, I finally “made it”, my goal of playing college football was finally fulfilled. It was the mountain top I had been hiking up to my entire life, everyone was proud of me, lots were impressed, and I made young Asa happy. On the top of this mountain was the loneliest and least fulfilled I had ever felt in my life-there was no joy, my soul was starved and thirsty, and the praise fled in an instant and left me empty. After 2 months, I hung up the cleats, packed my bags, and drove home one night. I came home and it felt like the whole world came down on me. When I was at college, I wasn’t happy, but at least others were, at least people thought I was cool. When I came home, I wasn’t fulfilled, nobody was impressed with me, I was bombarded with pity, constantly embarrassed when seeing others around town, and avoiding socialization, everything sucked. In this building of false hope and fulfillment, I had built over 19 years, everything crashed. The only thing that stayed standing was God. I loved religion I was so familiar with it, so I turned to it looking for something, but I found nothing. After a few weeks of looking in religion I ran into Jesus. That’s when my life changed, Christ reeled me in, and the love of the Father gave me a taste of what my soul has been hearing for.

My Life After Jesus Saved Me

Everything has changed. When I experience anger, comparison, lust, greed, pride, etc. I can give it up to God and rest in him. Jesus went from a word to feeling like a deep breath. I still struggle with lots of sin and misplaced hope even in my walk with Christ, but my response to Christ and desire to praise him stands out more than any sin struggle being conquered because those have just been by-products of realizing the beauty and majesty of God. I’d say the biggest change has been where I draw my value from and just thinking of myself less. I lived in Asa’s world for so long, and living in God's world is so much better.