NaomiGratiana's Blog

In a world that: loves, hates, loves, hates, loves, hates you

Lord I want trust in YOU

Yes, I want to live my life for YOU.

Rightousness, faithfulness, holiness

It's what I long for.



R: More than ever done before

Lord, I want to love YOU more



Live my life to worship YOU

Live my life to praise Your Name

Live my life for YOU

For YOU, for YOU Jesus !



Written by Naomi Cirstea copyright 2008

www.naomi-gratiana.blogspot.com

Hello everyone. This is a true story with Chris Sullivan. I hope it will tell you something very important. Just read and descover how the Lord works.
My name is Chris Sullivan and I'm 17 years old. For 16 and 1/2 years I've been atheist. For 16 and 1/2 years I have, not only closed, but slammed the door on anything relating to God. But he continued to knock. The reason I slammed this door was because I had no idea who He was. If I had of only known I was shutting out the greatest love, my door would have been wide open. My whole life I had been searching for love, acceptance, and a reason. After 16 and 1/2 years I found temporary answers, but in the end found nothing. In the middle of my 16th year I did not find God, but He found me. How many times do I have to mention I slammed his door for 16 and 1/2 years, yet he still knocked. Who do you know that would love you even after complete rejection? None other than God. When looking back, it seems as if God just dropped into my life, completely unexpected. It all started on a Friday night and I had nothing to do. I called all my close friends and they either were busy or for some reason couldn't do anything. I tried one last friend, an old friend I hadn't talked to in a while. She answered and said she was going to church and that I'm welcome to come. Church? Boring church? I figured what the heck, I'd rather do nothing with other people than nothing by myself. So I go and I'm blown away, not by God but by the people who knew God. These kids, my youth group today, are the coolest kids I have ever met and all have one thing in common, a relationship with the Lord. So each week I would look forward to seeing these kids again, and that would be my initial reason for returning. After a little while, the sermons that came along with having to be with these kids started to make sense. Everything in life was put into place, and things started to click. Who God was, what He did, what He wants to do, all those things fit like a puzzle piece. And when I finally finished the puzzle I saw something beautiful, God. From then on the rest is history. I am learning and searching and struggling and it's great. Not to say that all my problems have gone away, but after seeing Nick Vijicic's video on the internet I realized why I struggle. Which makes the whole struggling idea seem beautiful, to draw closer to God. I feel connected to Nick Vujicic in a sense that, in places where it appears there is no hope, or no reason, great things can happen. God uses the weak to lead the strong and that is evident. Through my story of hopelessness, and through Nick Vujicic's story of no reason, we have inspired both Christians and non-Christians to draw closer to God. If you question God and know nothing about Him, try it out. If you are going back and forth between believing and not believing, I tell you this: Why are all these people talking about how many blessings God has given them? Or why are all these people meeting and teaching and preaching this thing called God? Can you prove God is non-existent? No, you can't prove it, you can only choose to believe it. So if you can not prove it, God must be a possibility, true? And in science, to prove something, you have to look at all the possibilities. I say- try this thing called Christianity, there is definitely something to it. I've always heard about the atheist that turns Christian, but how many Christians turn atheist?