A little about me and Jesus

Avery Klepac
Oct 22, 2019
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Originally posted March 13, 2017 and edited October 22, 2019

I have been surrounded by Christianity my whole life. My parents were strong believers and my church in my hometown is pastored by my uncle. In fact, he started Abundant Grace Fellowship in my family’s living room! I was homeschooled through the fifth grade based on a biblical curriculum and finished my education at a Classical Christian school. I taught children’s church while I was high school, so I knew all of the Jesus stories. I was in my own Christian bubble where nothing truly bad ever happened to me. Instead of praising God for my blessed life, I took His blessings for granted. Don’t get me wrong, I still believed God existed and I still believed He was my Lord and Savior. I just wasn’t relentlessly pursuing Him.

My perfect little bubble was dramatically popped when I went to college and was living my life away from my family for the first time. The idea that homesickness only affects little kids is so wrong, because I was homesick. I was an 18 year old girl who missed her family that I cried myself to sleep some nights… er most nights. My life that was so easy and good was a thing of the past, or so I thought. I remember the night where everything changed. I was on the phone with my mom, and through my sobbing, I told her, “I feel like I am at the beach. All of my friends are on the beach throwing the frisbee, playing volleyball, and generally enjoying their time. But me, I am out in the ocean being hit over and over again by the waves. I can’t swim to the shore and no one knows that I am drowning.” My mom told me, “Avery, God is holding out his hand to rescue you, just need to take ahold of it.”

In that moment, I knew that it was that simple: just grab God’s hand. Since then, I have been on a relentless pursuit to intimately know God. Beginning this journey to truly know God has been the best decision I have made in my life. He has shown me so much goodness and perfect peace. I read the scriptures that I thought I knew in high school, but God reveals to me so many new and wonderful things. The greatest thing that I have learned in this past few years is to trust in Him. TA, the speaker for Breakaway Ministries, said one time that if we looked at our whole life as one big time lapse, we would not want to change one thing. God, the Creator of the universe, is planning my life and He has great things planned for me, so why would I want to change anything?? That simple thought has pushed me to trust Him even more.

Since my freshman year, life has been so sweet, but not void of troubles. As I am approaching graduation in 53 days, I reminisce about God’s faithfulness and goodness. College has not been anything that I expected, it has been hard, but I wouldn’t change a thing. I wouldn’t go back to change the heart breaks, I wouldn’t change the disappointments, because I have learned that choosing joy in those situations have been life changing. God is good and life is full in Him.

Lord, I pray that my testimony will encourage whoever reads it. I pray that whatever they are going though, that they will know that You are right there with them and You will not abandon them. If they are going through a tough time, I pray that You surround them with peace, comfort, and steadfast love. If they are going through good times, I pray that they will praise You and rejoice in Your blessings.

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