Monday, October 22, 2012
I choose life.
Two months shy of my 16th birthday, I chose to live a life that didn't offer me instant gratification. The life I chose left me as the odd one out in a public high school. I never attended one dance or party. I stayed home while my friends attended our senior prom. I never had a boy friend. I wasn't invited to hang out and have a beer or get high. The life I chose kept me from every addiction. The life I chose kept me from drugs and alcohol. Instead of showing up at school with a hang over, I relived sweet memories of a Holy Ghost filled alter service. The life I chose taught me self respect. The life I chose gave me elders who prayed for me and guided me through my teenage years. The life I chose gave me a God of all comfort who has helped me see the light at the end of even the darkest tunnel. I have been given life because one day I chose life. I chose to live for God and put all worldly things aside. It is because of that decision that God has blessed me and kept me. I have seen the day when I thought the sun would not shine again. I have cried many tears from sorrow and pain, but through it all my God has never left me nor forsaken me. 14 years ago I put my trust in Jesus, and 14 years later I can honestly say He has never let me down.
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They say everything is better with butter, but living for Jesus is, truly, thee best life to live. Also the scripture says thy love is better than wine. Wine becomes better with age. So is living for God it just gets better and better and the best is yet to come.
Ps 37:16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Ps 63:3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Ps 84:10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Ps 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
Ps 118:9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
Ps 119:72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Pr 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Pr 8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
Pr 12:9 He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
Pr 15:16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
Pr 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Pr 16:8 Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
Pr 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
Pr 16:19 Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Pr 16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Pr 17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.
Pr 19:1 Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
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