This I Believe speech

Shut up, very seriously. I ask everyone to take a moment and close your eyes. I would like you to imagine that you are in complete darkness in

this

darkness. This is the time in your life when you were in the deepest, darkest place. It could be a tragedy a loss some kind of debt challenges difficulties whatever it is it's the deepest place you've ever been today I have the honor of telling you how I would tell you if I had to get to the place I was in my deepest place and dark would I share with you where I started the foundation I grew up on and the journey I took to discover who I really was and then the process of becoming who I am today and how and why I

believe

my faith is what gives for me , a purpose, so I grew up in a family, my parents were Christians, they raised my brothers and me in the foundation that was buried and they have very strong convictions when it comes to going to church every Sunday.

I wouldn't say it having a relationship with God and it was never forced on us but we were always taught that there was a God and that he loved us and I knew there was a God but I didn't have a relationship so when I was in eighth grade I started to have an attitude negative towards the church and I didn't want to do anything, they don't want a relationship with God and I wanted to do my own thing so I started to rebel and started looking for the only things I wanted. I started drinking and I started lying and sneaking around and it just became something that just took over.

I felt like the lies I was telling started to weigh on my heart and it got to a point where I didn't even know what the truth was. I didn't know who I was anymore because there were so many different lives and I just acted differently around people, just like I acted differently around my friends and my family and especially around people at church and as I continued to go. down

this

path and everything became darker around me and I had no purpose in life. I had this gaping hole in my heart that just couldn't be filled by alcohol or anything and I was the friends that were around me calling.

They were my friends, but they weren't really there for me in times of need and I felt so alone and then there was this conversation from my heart that gradually began to lead me to the idea of ​​just opening the Bible and studying what it meant. I said because I had never really studied, I just listened to the lessons in church and I started opening the Bible, opening the Bible and reading the Scriptures and starting to apply them to my life and I studied them and Psalm 119:105. It says your word is a lamp for my feet a light on my path and I realized that this path of darkness that was was just leading me nowhere and had no purpose in life and then I started running towards the scriptures and it says I ran In the path of his orders to see we expanded my understanding and I realized that my heart had opened and had hit rock bottom.

I finally discovered that what I was living was for myself and that it didn't give me any purpose in life and so on. I ran to the scriptures and since then I studied them and on August 21, 2013 I was baptized and made Jesus the Lord of my life and it comes down to it that I have finally felt complete, that hole in my heart was finally filled and that is why and Because of the faith that I have that I

believe

is why I have a purpose in life.