Please do watch this video
A few months ago I moved back home after being in university, I had just gone through a horrific break up, and I was going back to the place where during my whole time at uni, I didn't want to go back to, I dreaded it. Most significant though was I was in no way walking with the Lord, I wasn't reading my Bible, I was going to church out of obligation once a month or so to keep my Mum happy and I was praying only for things like 'Please let me pass my exams first time' (which I did, which when doing Accounting and Finance is a miracle in itself), 'Please get me the best job without having to do anything' (He didn't answer that one...yet....) and a lot of other self involved prayers. Basically I was dead as a Christian, and I was living a Non-Christian life and I had been for 3 years at Uni.
However with all of that resentment towards my home town (mainly because all my Christian friends were there and I knew I was living a completely empty and meaningless life and it would remind me of that), I moved back and I went along to my home church and all I can say is God spoke to me and spoke to me big time. He made it abundantly clear that I was going no where and unless I changed pretty quick I was heading for a completely miserable life.
He did speak to me in loads of ways and one of them was this video that a mate of mine showed me when we were exchanging youtube videos (as you do). When I first watched it, it made me angry, but I think it is supposed to do that if you are not living the way you should, I then began to question what it is that Jesus means to me? Is my Jesus plastic? After a while of pondering this I realised I had completely gotten the wrong end of the stick after all the years of sitting in sermons and living as a 'Christian', Jesus is alive and he is real and I can know him. Obviously it wasn't a miraculous sudden change with mist and fancy mood lighting, but my eyes were opened, and over the next few months with me properly reading God's word with RBT (I will be talking about that A LOT in future posts) and letting Jesus rule my life, I really have felt my relationship with Jesus grow into something so much more meaningful. I can now honestly say that my Jesus is real and alive in me and he is definitely not plastic.
Now when I watch this video it encourages me, but it is only through being challenged first that I am now able to take encouragement from it.
David
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