It is worth it!

So this is the first time I have ever blogged but here it goes...

Well for those who don't know I am a Christian. This year I am studying about Christian youth work with an awesome organisation called South West Youth Ministries. This year I have learnt so much and all of it has been really new to me. The thing that has impacted me most is all the learning on the cost of being a disciple. When I became a Christian I never realized what I signed my self up for until this year. My heart has been shaken up big time and it is step by step being repaired. A lot I have been learning has been challenging and I have been trying to shape my heart back to the way God intended it to be. From reading the Gospel I learned a lot about Jesus and his disciples and how they surrendered all to follow him but I never really let that sink in. When there was areas of my life that were not right highlighted I gave them to God. Lately I came to realization that yes I gave things to him but I gave him the areas that I wanted. I did not give him my all I didn't let him in to all areas of my life to work in, So my heart wasn't getting restoration what so ever. Noticing this I have been praying daily to have the strength to die to self, I am no longer going to put God in a box and give him what I want, but I am going to give him what is rightfully his and that is all of me. 


Luke 9:23 "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." I want to take up that cross daily and I don't care how hard it is going to be... because it is so small compared to what Jesus done and it is 100% worth it. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." I want to be exactly what God called me to be, I love living out his word and truth and I would never want to do anything else. Looking at what I was to what I am now the transformation is amazing to look at. I love the life God has given me and to show my appreciation I intend to live fully sold out for him. Romans 12:1 "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship." God has a plan for us all but we need to have our hearts right before him so that our acts and our time as a physical being is all that God intended it to be. Live every day as if it is your last!