Growing up in a Christian home where my dad was the senior pastor of our church, church attendance and a moral lifestyle was always part of my life. I knew no other way of living except doing things right, and being a good child. We had family devotions and I would constantly hear my dad preach the gospel, but I thought I was fine, I was okay, those sermons were for the congregation and not applicable to me.

It was when my family invited a few members over at our place for a movie night that it dawned on me that I needed to submit to Jesus as Lord and savior. I was eleven years old at that time, and we watched ”The Passion of the Christ”. The movie opened my eyes to the pain and sorrow that Christ suffered in my place, and how He loved me so much that He had to die on the cross for a sinner who did not realize she needed saving. It was the total work of God that day and it was my first time really thinking and being convicted of my sin (Romans 3:23).

I didn’t sleep that night, conflicted with the thought of being saved and how I can be saved. So, the following morning I asked my dad to clearly explain the gospel, and how it applies to me, and most importantly what Christ expects of me. My dad opened the bible in John 3:16 and Romans 5:8 and explained the unconditional love of God for me, and how to live a life that honors Him. We had a lengthy conversation about the grace of God, and how nothing could ever make me earn it, it is just the total work of God. I burst in tears that moment and gave my life to living for the Lord, for He showed His love for me in that while I was still in my sins He died for me.

And since that day, there has never been a greater thing than knowing Christ. My life verse is Philippians 3:10 “That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death that by any means possible I may attain resurrection from the dead”. My life is His, and my desire is to know Him more and more and to glorify Him in all that I do.