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I Will Offer Up My Life

I have blogged before--many times on different platforms--but always with an audience in mind.

This time, this is just for me. It's for accountability and transparency. It's to archive what I've learned.

It's time that I took my faith seriously. This is the beginning of my adult life, where I am working and have free time and also need to have a purpose in life. I've felt the fleeting nature of temporary pleasures. I don't know why I pursue them when they won't contribute in any part to eternity.

I have also been feeling God pulling me back to Him in many situations where by all means and reasoning I should have been far gone from my faith. His grace is astounding in that even after a long time away from my faith I still have a solid and supportive church body to take refuge in. They point me to God and His Word, which is extremely important.

I find myself struggling with many basic elements of the Gospel, as well as the habits of any good believer. I have to revisit many of these things and it's a humbling process. It shows just how jaded and indifferent I have become.

But this is a new chapter. I'm hoping to write small tidbits of what I've learned from my devotions and Bible studies so I can document everything I've learned, and be able to look back and refresh myself on the timeless lessons I need to hear again and again.

I offer up my life to God. In all its brokenness and struggles, despite all my failures, and in light of my anxiety and other issues, I hope to find the grace of God and experience His love.


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