Hello. I hope that God you have been experiencing God’s blessing today.
My name is Christina Reichenbach, but please call me Chrissi.
I am 22 years old and I work for a Christian Group called Campus Crusade for Christ.
I am from a very small state in America. I do not think that you will know it but it is called Maryland.
God gave me two awesome parents. They are Christian.
They taught me about Jesus when I a child. I learned that there is God who loves me.
He wants to have a friendship with me.
It was easy for me to accept that God loves me greatly because of my parent’s great love for me.
However, my parent’s love did not satisfy me. My need for love was too great.
Only God’s love could fill that emptiness. The only way to experience God’s love is to be His friend.
But there was a problem. God is 100% holy and just. I am not.
I was not always kind and good in my heart. I was envious, proud, selfish, lustful, and dishonest.
I tried so hard but I could not get rid of these evil things in my heart.
Therefore, I could not be a friend with God. God also saw this problem.
He wanted me to be with Him forever.
So God decided to fix this problem. God came to earth in a perfect man. His name is Jesus.
Jesus came to fix our relationship with God by dying a painful death for me and you.
Because Jesus is God and perfect, He came back alive.
So this death met the need for God for us to be 100% holy.
Now, only by Jesus’ death and resurrection we can become 100% holy.
My relationship with God was fixed. I asked Jesus to come into my heart.
That is when I became a Christian.
But, when I was 15 years old, I started to believe that God did not love me.
Satan, an evil being who is an enemy of God, lied to me about God.
Satan whispered that I was ugly, had no value, people did not like me, and God did not want me.
I became very sad. Many times I thought about killing myself. But God never stopped loving me.
God protected me. He gave me a wise woman named Carmella. She told me the truth about God.
She told me that God will always love me. There is nothing that I can do to make God hate me.
She told me that God made me beautiful. God thinks that I am always beautiful.
She told me that God always wants to be my friend.
Last, she told me that I have great value because of Jesus Christ dying that painful death.
I believed her and God healed my heart. I was not sad anymore.
If you are sad now believe this:
“For God so loved the world, that He gave up His only begotten Son that who ever believes
in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”
John 3:16.
God’s Son Jesus is the most valuable thing God has. God gave up Jesus because He loves us so much.
You and I are worth that much to Him.
If you want to know this God personally who loves you so much pray with me.
Jesus, I am sorry that I am not 100% holy.
I am sorry for all of the bad things that I have done in my life.
Please forgive me. I want you as my God and as my friend.
I give you my heart. Please heal it and fill it with your love.
Amen.
Thank you.
Nishinomiya Agape Church Marina Chapel
