93Civic_hb's 93 HONDA CIVIC HATCHBACK

I was fortunate to be born and raised in a Christian home that loved the Lord. I received Jesus Christ as my personal savior when I was a young boy. As years (sophomore in height school) passed I found myself not content with my lifestyle, because this world displayed its love and satisfaction, and I found it to be pleasurable. I started to steer my own life down misery lane which involved alcohol, drugs, and friends that weren?t walking with the Lord. I had this deep inner need of significance and joy that I was trying to fill, but it never felt achieved. During years of living this lifestyle I would encounter some consequences with law and disclosing my drug related problems with my parents. I knew something was missing in my life but with years of living in sin I lost touch of the one who created me. During the first semester as a sophomore at a near bye trade school, I meet a girl by the name of Jenna at a party in December of 2002. At that time I just neutrally broke apart from a long term relationship from high school that was drawn out and not pleasing to the Lord. Jenna and I kept in touch, and by January 20th we were official dating. My relationship with Jenna at the time was the importance that I have been looking for. At the beginning of our relationship I continued to live my life full of sin such as drugs, alcohol, and sex. I knew that I was still coming up short with the longing and desires of this world. At that time I was exposed to the reality that I was missing, something that only could be filled spiritually and Jenna personally hadn?t known Jesus Christ. Jenna and I shared together our intentions as individuals and as a couple, and I knew that she was a part of my future. I started going back to church and after being persistent Jenna started to come with me. After attending church every weekend for about 4 months things still felt burdened. Around May of 2003 I found out that my oldest brother Jason and a few of his close friends turned their lives around and gave them to the Lord. This really made me question my personally standing between God and me. A few weeks passed and I was invited to a bible study at Jason apartment. I started to go and that was the convicting evidence that I need, because I seen the love, fellowship, and the lives that God changed. After an evening of bible study Ryan Hostettler invited me to Promise Keepers with him and his father. I attending a 3 day weekend of Promise Keepers at Baltimore, I was in all of the love and faithfulness that God had for his people. I arrived back home on January 1, 2003 and I knew that I had to humbly come before God and repent, because all this time my sin alienated my standing with him and I had to receive God?s grace. That night I rededicated my life to him, and I knew what it meant to become a child of God. Shortly after living my life for the Lord Jenna received the salvation that Jesus Christ offers each and every one of us. I?ve found the significance that I?ve been longing for and it?s only found in God. However, God shown me that significance ?my self-worth? in this life is the way God views me. Only through God all the desires of my heart were given to me, and I realized that you can?t begin to compare the value of salvation and what this world has to offer.

Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 8:39)

Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of you mind. (Romans 12:2)