Being a new person in a school is not easy. It happened a
lot for we
moved around a lot.
Having no friends and starting afresh is hard to adjust with
others in a new school as well.
One having to have gone through this their work studies tend
to suffer. Maybe you experienced being a new kid in school as well when you
were growing up.
Well one day at this new school I heard that there was going
to be a chess match. I was excited and entered to play. And you know what? I
won. Out of 100 kids I won. They announced my name into the loudspeaker at
school the next day. I was shy when they did but felt proud that I was able to
because it was an accomplishment in my life because of God’s help.
But the story actually starts here.
That morning when the bell rang I went to the next class
which was music class for me. I sat in the last seat in the last row and
started to draw pictures while the teacher instructed the students to read like
10 pages there in class. As everyone was reading, not me I was drawing the teacher
slowly but surely moved around the class heading towards me. I covered my
drawings and made like I was reading the material he had given us.
He got to be right behind me and said these words, “So you
think your something Mario. Just wait until my guys get a hold of you.” What he
had said, as a teacher, diminished my spirit. I did not understand why then but
understand now that
I was pushed out of his jealousy of me into another chess
match with a group of the smarter kids in higher grades, one even with an I.Q.
of 130, I was told.
I agreed not realizing then that there were other teachers
that had the same jealousy, for they would be playing, teaching, some of the kids
of that group to beat me.
All in all I was defenseless with no one to help me train with
no one to give emotional support. I cried within my heart to God telling him
so.
Before I finish what happened at the event at school I want
to share with you about this other true story about this other match that took
place.
It was not a chess match though, but a way of life match.
You see long ago there was this group of men who studied
since youth a certain way of life. Who knew every aspect of the rule of what
they studied. They knew their game both forward and backward inside and out.
Everyone listen to these men. Everyone looked up to these men. These men in the
eyes of the people were smart. They were the authority the people listen to.
That was until one day this new person came to where they
were at.
This new person discussed with them to what they knew and
what they knew not. He did not discuss the rules that they knew inside and out.
He discussed the nature of their heart.
They did not know that that this new person was present when
Moses received those rules that they studied, known as the Ten Commandments.
For this new persons name that was with them was Jesus and Jesus was
telling them how to be free, that through him they could be free, telling them
that their nature of whom they listened to kept them in bondage.
Jesus knew the nature
in their heart.
He knew they followed
the nature of their father the devil.
But what is sad is they did not accept his word and sought
to kill this man named Jesus with stones. But Jesus passed through the midst of
them.
All this is recorded in the bible in detail by John, the gospel of John chapter8.
All this is recorded in the bible in detail by John, the gospel of John chapter8.
So as to finish what had become of the chess championship
story in school. I went on to win the match remembering my plea to God for his
help.
You can as well. God wants you so much to trust him. He
wants you to be free.
And the only way to be free is through His Son Jesus, who he
sent to be the savior of the world.Jesus can and will save you if you let him.
Do you know why?
Because he died on the cross and was buried but the good news is he has risen from the dead to give you that opportunity to call on him as having died to have cleanse you of your sins by his blood.
Call on Jesus
The promise from God Himself.
Special just for YOU
TODAY you can be Born-Again, trusting in Jesus as your Savior
Isn't it neat how the Lord gives us life lessons even BEFORE we knew He was personal, that He is Savior, that He is worthy of our eternal trust? Thank you for sharing today!
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