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Hello everyone, My name is Mark and I am a new Christian, so if I ramble sometimes a bit, please bear with me. I wanted to say first that I chose the avatar I did because my appearance is unimportant as much as I myself am. I believe that the focus should be on God and all things righteous, not on who I am or what i look like. I hope thats ok by the pastors and administrators here. I have been reading a few of the posts here and find that my beliefs about God and his teachings (the interpretation) fall right in line with the pastors here, so I feel like i am in good company for the first time in my life. Since this is the introduction forum I will post a little bit about who i am.
I used to live my life for satan for a long time... rock and roll music, lust, etc... I am disgusted now with how blind and lost i was. The specifics are not really important, but what IS important is that i do now know Jesus Christ, and he is my Lord and Savior, and at every opportunity God gives me, i do try to witness to others by listening to his voice (the Holy Spirit) and let him tell me what to say, how, and how far to go... I now try to live my life for Christ in everything i do. I do backslide as do we all (for we are all sinners), but i do ask his forgiveness and ask him to rule my life and to do his will, not mine.
The only other important thing i wanted to say is that i am terminally ill and Praise God! will be seeing him soon. I am a dialysis patient due to a genetic problem in my family. I do believe that some of us suffer for sins we have committed, but others suffer because it is righteous suffering for Christ (think Job), though i do NOT consider myself in the same catagory as Job, i do understand suffering FOR Christ, and WELCOME it... think about how much suffering Christ did for us on the cross, not to mention how much God suffers every time we chose NOT to worship and believe in him... I think its a very small price to pay indeed.
Well, I think thats about it... no more about me... as I said, it is God and Jesus Christ who are important, not us.
Praise God and God bless all of his children here in Jesus' name. AMEN
I used to live my life for satan for a long time... rock and roll music, lust, etc... I am disgusted now with how blind and lost i was. The specifics are not really important, but what IS important is that i do now know Jesus Christ, and he is my Lord and Savior, and at every opportunity God gives me, i do try to witness to others by listening to his voice (the Holy Spirit) and let him tell me what to say, how, and how far to go... I now try to live my life for Christ in everything i do. I do backslide as do we all (for we are all sinners), but i do ask his forgiveness and ask him to rule my life and to do his will, not mine.
The only other important thing i wanted to say is that i am terminally ill and Praise God! will be seeing him soon. I am a dialysis patient due to a genetic problem in my family. I do believe that some of us suffer for sins we have committed, but others suffer because it is righteous suffering for Christ (think Job), though i do NOT consider myself in the same catagory as Job, i do understand suffering FOR Christ, and WELCOME it... think about how much suffering Christ did for us on the cross, not to mention how much God suffers every time we chose NOT to worship and believe in him... I think its a very small price to pay indeed.
Well, I think thats about it... no more about me... as I said, it is God and Jesus Christ who are important, not us.
Praise God and God bless all of his children here in Jesus' name. AMEN
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