Welcome to Squidoo.com! As a new Squidoo.com user, I am dying to make an impact. As a passionate, excited, and positive person by nature,I plan to share my favorites with you. Let me tell you about my BIGGEST favorite, and know that every aspect of my life (and my Squidoo.com pages) is affected by it: When I was a young little guy, my parents felt it was important for me to have the opportunity to properly develop. One of the biggest motivators in a person's life are the principles they live their life by, so they decided the best way to teach me how to live a principled life was to take me to church. Every week. For my entire up-bringing. Crazy, right? That weekly event in my life completely changed me in a very good way. I met my first ever "favorite". He is Jesus Christ. That sounds weird too, right? You are thinking "you 'MET' him?" Yes, I formed a relationship with a close friend. Christ lived on the earth over 2000 years ago, but I've had the opportunity to get to know him in the Bible. He made lots of promises while he lived on the earth, including the promise that he was GOD. Whoa!!! What? a person, living on earth, calling himself the creator of the universe??? What I found is that the life he lived was so perfect, and so powerful, and so unnaturally loving to everyone around him, that it HAD to be true. He also promised that he would "take away the sins of the world". What's sin? He described it as anything that I do that I know I am not supposed to do-- and I know that EVERYONE does stuff they know they are not supposed to do. He promised that if I personally trusted him as my only hope, and as my friend, that he would wipe my history of doing wrong completely away. And he did what he said! He willingly died on the cross. He was murdered, but based on his promise to be God, he easily could have avoided this cruel punishment, and destroyed his captors--he CHOSE not to, for you and me. You see, God, the creator of the universe, made us to be PERFECT. We aren't--not even close. And because we are not what he created us to be, God really should have destroyed us and started over. But the Bible says he loves us SO MUCH that he sent Jesus to die, to take our punishment. You know what happened--Jesus came, lived, loved, and died. But he also rose again. He continues to love me and keep his promises to me, the way only the best friend could. I recognized when I was 6 years old that he offered this forgiveness, and this friendship with him. I prayed to him and asked for forgiveness for my sin, and told him I knew that I did not deserve it, but that his death on the cross was what I needed to take away every wrong I ever had done or would do. When I was done praying, I knew he had. I know I still do wrong, but I know I am forgiven, and with all my power, I try to live my life in a way that would please Jesus because of his sacrifice for me. He offers that same forgiveness and friendship to you, along with the same promises he offered to me. He loves you and wants you to trust him as your only hope, and become his friend. All you have to do is pray and ask, recognizing that you do wrong, and that your only hope is Jesus. This is my FAVORITE thing ever, and it permeates my entire life.
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