Before Jesus Changed My Life

I was turning to drinking and sinful activities to fill the hole in my heart. I didn’t care what I did or what it would do to my life. I was always hanging with friends who taught me that drinking to “have fun” was normal, and it became a regular thing every time I was with friends. I always knew it was wrong, but I just wanted to fit in. I started to feel so angry at everyone around me after a while. When certain things irritated me, I would lash out and start cussing out others and doing things out of anger. I didn’t know why I acted like this, but again, deep down, I knew it wasn’t me, and something wasn’t right. I began to drink in order to feel “happy” or to distract” myself from reality. 

How Jesus Changed My Life

Once I found Jesus, I was still the same, but the more I read my Bible or listened to podcasts about him, the more it changed my heart little by little. I eventually became convicted of sin when it came to drinking and hanging around with that group of friends. I didn’t attend my best friend’s birthday because I knew they would be drinking and doing things I didn’t want to be a part of. That really broke me because I felt so alone. For a long time, I began to lean on Jesus more, and I fell back a couple times from reading my Bible, but overall, after I found him, my life started to turn around. I had a talk with him and started to dive deeper into why I think or act the way I do, and he revealed so many things about my childhood that connected with the way I was feeling or acting. After that night, I didn’t feel that type of anger ever again. Jesus changed my heart. I fully believe that the good news of the Bible is that Jesus died on a cross for our sins and was resurrected because he loves us so deeply. 1 Peter 2:24 says “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”

My Life After Jesus Saved Me

I am no longer angry at everything and everyone anymore. I completely stopped hanging with those friends that led me into sin. For a time, I did feel lonely, but after I prayed about the loneliness and how alone I felt, God brought me a good friend who loves Jesus as much as I do. She holds me accountable and I get to do the same for her. I’ve grown so much ever since I met Jesus, and I finally feel wanted and like I belong. It also changed my mindset a lot, and I realized that a lot of this world switches up things like drinking for me. I thought it was fun, and if I didn’t do it, I would be boring. Some people still tell me I’m boring because I’m young and I need to “live my life while I’m young,” but I would rather follow Jesus.