Beautiful feet

E 6:15

Keep your feet fitted with the readiness of the Gospel of PEACE

One of the most encouraging events that I have been to this freshman year of college, was going to see To Write Love on Her Arms at the Allen Theater. If you didn't know, To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. After getting on fire for God this past summer, I remembered how He brought me to Himself in the first place.

I've struggled with depression before. I've thought about suicide before. Why? I didn't think I had a purpose for this life. Nothing could fill me up. I was involved with extracurricular activities just so I could be away from home as much as possible. I have attempted to run away before. I've punched holes in walls and cried like a baby, only because I felt as if I had no purpose. NOBODY knew this, because I could cover up my sadness with a smile, jokes, a "mask". However, the longer I held it in, the closer I was to breaking down. If I didn't find out who Jesus was and missed the gospel, I could have been good as dead by now.

But I do not account my life of ANY value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24

Thank you Jesus. I felt like life was not worth it because I was missing the point. 

I thought that life was graduating high school in the top ten, going to college and getting a good job, get a fiiiiine wife and a gorgeous house, healthy kids, and for them the same. Isn't that the American Dream!? NO. The reality was that I was broke, NOT in the top ten, with a broken family, and a mind that saw things in the worst perspective. Before I was saved I was an object of wrath!

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy .

Titus 3:5

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There are millions, billions of people who have not heard the good news about Jesus Christ. There are millions of girls who have not heard that they are beautiful. There are millions of guys who have not heard that there is a way out of their mess. There are plenty of single mothers who want to give up. There are countless poor citizens who define worth by things that they do not have and there are more rich people who put their worth in everything that they do have. Acts 20:24 says that the purpose of our life is to spread the word about Jesus! You don't have to put $2000 down on a mission trip to India to do that!!! We are suffering right here, right now.

 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Romans 10:14-15

Do you get it? Romans 10:13 says that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, WILL (which means absolutely, without a doubt) will be SAVED! 

....But what if I had ended my own life, before I was saved? There is someone out there who is just like who I used to be, who needs to hear that someone, our God, loves them. There is somebody hanging by a thread that doesn't realize the ladder placed behind them!  They are at war because when you an object of wrath, that's what you do! You are at war with yourself, and you have beef with God! However, Ephesians 6:15 tells us to keep our feet equipped with the gospel of peace. And the last time I checked, peace has no war in it! So how can they even call on the peace maker if they don't even know Him? How can they know Him if they have not even heard of Him? And how can we, as Christians, build an army to change the world through Jesus, if we are not preaching to the one's who are already in the world's chokehold? 

Once they hear of hope, they can search for hope, and they will gain hope. 

The gospel changes everything. It literally and spiritually saved my life!

**A special dedication to the family of Texas Tech student Mason Vanstory, who committed suicide in Lubbock, Texas last semester and all the families who have been effected by this tragedy.