Your Heart Can Travel When Your Body’s Stuck at Home

I live in Nashville, Tennessee. The most miles I’ve traveled from away from home was on a trip I took to India. I volunteered in that nation for three months and it was an amazing experience. However, the furthest I have ever traveled from my American home was my journey from darkness to light.

I was an agnostic college freshman. I sensed that there was more to life than our physical existence, but I I was stuck in darkness and couldn’t see any convincing evidence of that. A classmate kept inviting me to a weekly meeting that he called “Dorm Devotion.” I wasn’t interested, but he wouldn’t leave me alone, so I finally attended in order to get him stop pestering me.

I heard something in that meeting that I had never heard before — people talking about Jesus Christ like He is real, alive, present, and working in their lives. As they testified something happened inside of me. I suddenly became aware that Jesus is alive and with me. As if a switch had been switched, I could feel myself being changed from deep within me. Ever since that moment, I’ve been filled with the awareness of Christ in me and hungry to follow and obey Him and to know Him better and better.

Genesis 3:5 (Life-Plan B) / Revelation 12:11 (Life-Plan A)

Satan’s plan
Is disguised
As a blessing,
Wrapped up in
The self-focus
Of self-defining
The nature of
Good and evil,
So that people
Will replace
The desires of God
With their own desires
And be forever
Separated from
God’s Tree of Life.
But God’s plan
Is that the blood
Of Jesus Christ
Will renew your life
So that Christ
Will live in you
As you tell
The glorious story
Of how Jesus
Has set you free
From sin and self-focus.

When the risen Jesus becomes real in your life and you rely on His blood to continually remove your guilt and shame, you feel so wonderful that you can’t help telling people about what He has done and is doing in you. Then the more you testify about Jesus the more excited you get about Him and the freer you are from the bondage of self-focus. Isn’t it time that you open the door of your heart and let the living Jesus moment by moment align your life with His plan? (See Revelation 3:20.)

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