A Changed Life
My Broken Life is Transformed
I was transformed after I surrendered my life to Jesus. An excerpt from Rise from the Ashes is my testimony...
I got it. I can do it! These were the confident words of a five-year-old at the check-out counter. She informed her mother she could carry the jug of cider to the car and her mother, not wanting to make a scene, acquiesced. Her daughter made it out the store’s door, but the glass jug slipped from her hands and hit the sidewalk. Glass and cider splattered everywhere.
The young girl became a strong-willed and self-reliant woman. But as decades of her life unfolded and she insisted, I got it. I can do it! more glass and cider splattered everywhere.
Want to know how her life worked out? Let’s interview Ms. I Got It.
Interviewer: We don’t have your current bio, Ms. I Got It, but we’ll start with what we have and let you update us. It reads that you’re a woman who makes her own decisions. A woman who prizes self-reliance and proudly stands as the architect of her life. You’re now in the fourth quarter of your life and our listeners are calling in to ask, “How did your strong-will and self-reliance work for you?”
Ms. I Got It: Not so good. (There’s an audible gasp from Interviewer.) Most of my life was full of inner turmoil and unhappiness. In my teens I felt worthless. Not pretty enough or smart enough or popular enough. In my twenties I figured I’d be worth something if I married the right man, drove the right car and lived in the right neighborhood. I made my own decision about who to marry and that didn’t work out well. In my thirties and forties there were marriages and divorces because I thought I knew it all. I believed I knew what was right for me. Ask God? Why would I bother asking Him when I’ve got this Lord? Sure, I called out to Him in pain and anguish when suffering consequences for my bad choices, but on a daily basis, I thought, I’ve got this Lord. You have more important things to do.
In the fifth decade of my life things began to change. I was led to a bible-based church and soon learned that I didn’t get it and couldn’t do it. I realized Ms. I Got It wasn’t working for me. I began to surrender more of my life’s daily stuff and decision making to God. Once I did this, I had less turmoil and unhappiness and more peace. I’m not going to tell you that my life is perfect because sometimes I forget to surrender things to God and sometimes suffer the consequences of living in a fallen world. But it doesn’t matter because when I surrender to God and don’t say, “I’ve got this Lord”—that makes all the difference.
Interviewer: This is more of an update than I expected and we’re almost out of time. We have a young caller with this question, “What advice do you have for young listeners?”
Ms. God’s Got It: Sisters, don’t wait until the fifth decade of your life to let go of Ms. I Got It and surrender your life to God today. The world taught me to believe, I got it. I can do it! and that was a big lie. God taught me the Truth and now I have a new name--Ms. God’s Got It.
And that concluded the interview.
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I got it. I can do it! These were the confident words of a five-year-old at the check-out counter. She informed her mother she could carry the jug of cider to the car and her mother, not wanting to make a scene, acquiesced. Her daughter made it out the store’s door, but the glass jug slipped from her hands and hit the sidewalk. Glass and cider splattered everywhere.
The young girl became a strong-willed and self-reliant woman. But as decades of her life unfolded and she insisted, I got it. I can do it! more glass and cider splattered everywhere.
Want to know how her life worked out? Let’s interview Ms. I Got It.
Interviewer: We don’t have your current bio, Ms. I Got It, but we’ll start with what we have and let you update us. It reads that you’re a woman who makes her own decisions. A woman who prizes self-reliance and proudly stands as the architect of her life. You’re now in the fourth quarter of your life and our listeners are calling in to ask, “How did your strong-will and self-reliance work for you?”
Ms. I Got It: Not so good. (There’s an audible gasp from Interviewer.) Most of my life was full of inner turmoil and unhappiness. In my teens I felt worthless. Not pretty enough or smart enough or popular enough. In my twenties I figured I’d be worth something if I married the right man, drove the right car and lived in the right neighborhood. I made my own decision about who to marry and that didn’t work out well. In my thirties and forties there were marriages and divorces because I thought I knew it all. I believed I knew what was right for me. Ask God? Why would I bother asking Him when I’ve got this Lord? Sure, I called out to Him in pain and anguish when suffering consequences for my bad choices, but on a daily basis, I thought, I’ve got this Lord. You have more important things to do.
In the fifth decade of my life things began to change. I was led to a bible-based church and soon learned that I didn’t get it and couldn’t do it. I realized Ms. I Got It wasn’t working for me. I began to surrender more of my life’s daily stuff and decision making to God. Once I did this, I had less turmoil and unhappiness and more peace. I’m not going to tell you that my life is perfect because sometimes I forget to surrender things to God and sometimes suffer the consequences of living in a fallen world. But it doesn’t matter because when I surrender to God and don’t say, “I’ve got this Lord”—that makes all the difference.
Interviewer: This is more of an update than I expected and we’re almost out of time. We have a young caller with this question, “What advice do you have for young listeners?”
Ms. God’s Got It: Sisters, don’t wait until the fifth decade of your life to let go of Ms. I Got It and surrender your life to God today. The world taught me to believe, I got it. I can do it! and that was a big lie. God taught me the Truth and now I have a new name--Ms. God’s Got It.
And that concluded the interview.
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