Daily Encouragement For April 14:

Really Do I Need God?

As I joined a local brownie group, I was obliged to attend two church services a year. I couldn't help but examine my watch every 5 minutes and as I was only about 8 it was no big deal. As I progressed to Guides 
I began to get bored with such things as making cookies and going to church, so I left. 

I'm not nasty and I'd like to think I am a decent person, but I never had God in my life, but it didn't matter, well not then. I even denied there was a God. Many people have a God shaped hole within their soul.  I 
have to say I didn't, I was happy and progressing nicely. 

My testimony doesn't involve being through the torment of divorce or amazing situations, which brought me to God, but it's probably typical of many people. I have two parents who live together but aren't happy, I love my Mum but not my Dad, so I guess it's the father figure, I think I was looking for. 

I went to an Easter camp where I decided to believe in God again and attended a local church. If I really look into my heart, one of the main reasons why I went to church was for a boy, and God knew that.  He knows our hearts and motives. Only now, three years after becoming a 'Christian' can I really say I LIVE FOR GOD. It's not easy, in fact at times, when my friends are drinking and getting involved in various 
relationships, I become a little envious of their freedom, but then I realize where they are going and it saddens me. I have the Lord and they don't. I still find it hard to be a witness, but I'm trying with the 
Lords help.  He's walking beside me and thats what counts.

All the good things in life require effort, like exams and exercising, but the outcome is worth it. I love the Lord and He loves me, thats what counts, today and for Eternity.

“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.” - John 17:9-11.