Your Stories: God Can Get You Through It
Sometimes life can be difficult, and it helps to hear from other Christian teens about how their struggles made them stronger in their faith. One reader shared how she turned away from God, got into some trouble, and how her life changed when she found him again:
"I've struggled with my faith as a Christian since I was 11, which made me turn away from God by doing bad things such as hanging out with the wrong crowd,using profanity a lot, and persecuting Christians. My whole life turned around when I attempted suicide at the age of 16. I've done everything to try to kill myself since I was 11, but God has a better plan for me than what I thought for myself.
I was sent to rehab where I could gather my thoughts and pray really hard to get a relationship with God. I got out, and it was just wonderful just to stop and look at God's creation because I didn't get to go anywhere except into other rooms in rehab. Now I'm trying to make an impact on others who have or are going through the same thing I've been through.
So if you think that your worthless, you're not. God has a plan for you and HE cares about you and loves you so much. Don't give up on life because once you lose it you can never get it back. Luckily I'm still alive trying to save people. And if I wasn't, I don't know what I'd do. So please believe me, God has a future for you. I didn't believe it at the time, but I had to learn the hard way, and you don't. Believe me, trust in Him and HE accepts you."
Do you have a story to share? Submit your testimony and see how you can inspire other Christian teens or encourage them in their Christian walk.
Comments
wow! i know that God is the source of perfect love no matter what………..even though u did the worst thing and got urself to the worst still He takes ur hand life u up to a glory……….urs God forever……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
For sure God’s love is sufficient,no matter what lifestyle we lead He never forsake His children.His love is PERFECT.He has a reason for you to be alive and as you live lead a Holy life and serve Him for the Glory and honour of His name.Amen
Sometimes it takes getting to your lowest possible point in your life to finally reach out for God. It doesn’t have to be that hard, look for Him while you’re still safe and sound. He is there, always. As I am getting to know Him, He is getting to know me. This is when the love of God is experienced, whatever my need, that need is satisfied in overflowing. Peace and joy.
Nice story. There is a play that is similar to your life. If you want to look at it, it’s on Godtube and Youtube. Just search “Lifehouse, Everything”. I think you can really connect to that skit, and would like it. (There is a lot of re-do’s by local church’s, but the original has a purple picture and is listed twice as a skit, and a drama.)Good job with your life change.
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.–Num.23:24
Whenever we read … the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind. And, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. — Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Genesis
Because God liked Abel’s animal sacrifice more than Cain’s vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy. 4:8
God is angry. He decides to destroy all humans, beasts, creeping things, fowls, and “all flesh wherein there is breath of life.” He plans to drown them all. 6:7, 17
God repeats his intention to kill “every living substance … from off the face of the earth.” But why does God kill all the innocent animals? What had they done to deserve his wrath? It seems God never gets his fill of tormenting animals. 7:4
God drowns everything that breathes air. From newborn babies to koala bears — all creatures great and small, the Lord God drowned them all. 7:21-23
God sends a plague on the Pharaoh and his household because the Pharaoh believed Abram’s lie. 12:17
God tells Abram to kill some animals for him. The needless slaughter makes God feel better. 15:9-10
Hagar conceives, making Sarai jealous. Abram tells Sarai to do to Hagar whatever she wants. “And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled.” 16:6
“I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.”
I guess God couldn’t find even ten good Sodomites because he decides to kill them all in Genesis 19. Too bad Abraham didn’t ask God about the children. Why not save them? If Abraham could find 10 good children, toddlers, infants, or babies, would God spare the city? Apparently not. God doesn’t give a damn about children. 18:32
Lot refuses to give up his angels to the perverted mob, offering his two “virgin daughters” instead. He tells the bunch of angel rapers to “do unto them [his daughters] as is good in your eyes.” This is the same man that is called “just” and “righteous” in 2 Peter 2:7-8. 19:7-8
God kills everyone (men, women, children, infants, newborns) in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining “fire and brimstone from the Lord out of heaven.” Well, almost everyone — he spares the “just and righteous” Lot and his family. 19:24
Lot’s nameless wife looks back, and God turns her into a pillar of salt. 19:26
God threatens to kill Abimelech and his people for believing Abe’s lie. 20:3-7
Sarai tells Abraham to “cast out this bondwoman and her son.” God commands him to “hearken unto her voice.” So Abraham abandons Hagar and Ishmael, casting them out into the wilderness to die. 21:10-14
God orders Abraham to kill Isaac as a burnt offering. Abraham shows his love for God by his willingness to murder his son. But finally, just before Isaac’s throat is slit, God provides a goat to kill instead. 22:2-13
Abraham shows his willingness to kill his son for God. Only an evil God would ask a father to do that; only a bad father would be willing to do it. 22:10
Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, is “defiled” by a man who seems to love her dearly. Her brothers trick all of the men of the town and kill them (after first having them all circumcised), and then take their wives and children captive. 34:1-31
“The terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them.” 35:5
“And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.” What did Er do to elicit God’s wrath? The Bible doesn’t say. Maybe he picked up some sticks on Saturday. 38:7
After God killed Er, Judah tells Onan to “go in unto they brother’s wife.” But “Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and … when he went in unto his brother’s wife … he spilled it on the ground…. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also.” This lovely Bible story is seldom read in Sunday School, but it is the basis of many Christian doctrines, including the condemnation of both masturbation and birth control. 38:8-10
After Judah pays Tamar for her services, he is told that she “played the harlot” and “is with child by whoredom.” When Judah hears this, he says, “Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.” 38:24
Joseph interprets the baker’s dream. He says that the pharaoh will cut off the baker’s head, and hang his headless body on a tree for the birds to eat. 40:19
Exodus
Moses murders an Egyptian after making sure that no one is looking. 2:11-12
God threatens to kill the Pharaoh’s firstborn son. 4:23
God decides to kill Moses because his son had not yet been circumcised. 4:24-26
God will make sure that Pharaoh does not listen to Moses, so that he can kill Egyptians with his armies. 7:4
“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.” Who else could be so cruel and unjust? 7:5, 17
God tells Moses and Aaron to smite the river and turn it into blood. 7:17-24
The fifth plague: all cattle in Egypt die. 9:2-6
The sixth plague: boils and blains upon man and beast. 9:9-12
“For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.” Who else but the biblical god could be so cruel? 9:14
The seventh plague is hail. “And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast.” 9:22-25
These verses clearly show that the mass murder of innocent children by God was premeditated. 11:4-6 (see 12:29-30)
God will kill the Egyptian children to show that he puts “a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.” 11:7
God explains to Moses that he intends to “smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. 12:12
After God has sufficiently hardened the Pharaoh’s heart, he kills all the firstborn Egyptian children. When he was finished “there was not a house where there was not one dead.” Finally, he runs out of little babies to kill, so he slaughters the firstborn cattle, too. 12:29
To commemorate the divine massacre of the Egyptian children, Moses instructs the Israelites to “sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix” — all the males, that is. God has no use for dead, burnt female bodies. 13:2, 12, 15
After hardening Pharaoh’s heart a few more times, God drowns Pharaoh’s army in the sea 14:4-28
Moses and the people sing praises to their murderous god. 15:1-19
“The Lord is a man of war.” Indeed, judging from his acts in the Old Testament, he is a vicious warlike monster. 15:3
God’s right hand dashes people in pieces. 15:6
If you do what God says, he won’t send his diseases on you (like he did to the Egyptians). But otherwise…. 15:26
Joshua, with God’s approval, kills the Amalekites “with the edge of the sword.” 17:13
“The Lord has sworn [God swears!] that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” 17:14-16
Any person or animal that touches Mt. Sinai shall be stoned to death or “shot through.” 19:12-13
Like the great and powerful Wizard of Oz, nobody can see God and live. 19:21
God gives instructions for killing and burning animals. He says that if we will make such “burnt offerings,” he will bless us for it. What kind of mind would be pleased by the killing and burning of innocent animals? 20:24
A child who hits or curses his parents must be executed. 21:15, 17
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. 21:24-25
If an ox gores someone, “then the ox shall surely be stoned.” 21:28
If an ox gores someone due to the negligence of its owner, then “the ox shall be stoned, and his owner shall be put to death.”. 21:29
If an ox gores a slave, the owner of the ox must pay the owner of the slave 30 shekels of silver, and “the ox shall be stoned.” 21:32
“Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Thousands of innocent women have suffered excruciating deaths because of this verse. 22:18
“Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.” Is it really necessary to kill such people? Couldn’t we just send them to counseling or something? 22:19
“God” does not give a damn about you.
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Hi!,
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Thanks Kelli, that was right on time!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, the whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
God DOES love and care for us!!
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