Jesus and me

Today is the eve of my twentieth year of life. Tomorrow I will no longer be a teenager. A crazy thought. I have been thinking about if for the last few months. It hit me yesterday when I looked in the mirror how quickly time is passing. I got a flashback to my sophomore year in high school when I chose to skip a section of MCAS testing to sit in a bathroom stall and pray. That moment feels like it was only a few months ago. It was over 3 years. I was 16.

In the short 20 years of my life, I have come to know one truth about life. Jesus.
If there is anything that right now I can confidently say about who I am, it is that Jesus Christ is the most important person in my life. Although I do not always live in a manner that would bring Him glory, I know He loves me. He loves me regardless of what I have done and what I will do. He loves me the way I am. He loves me.

I have a hard time understanding that truth. But I do not think it is only meant to be understood. I think it is meant to be felt.

Jesus Christ is the only thing that makes me wake up and get out of bed in the morning. I do not know what I would do if I had to live one day without Him. I would want to die if that was the case.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose"

-Jim Elliot, died after being speared though the heart by a native people group in Ecuador in the 1940's. He was a husband and a father, and one of the first missionaries to Ecuador.

I pray that the Church of America would not desire to die for the gospel, but that we would live for it.

Whenever I leave this Earth, I know it is because God is done with me down here. I know that my death is in His Sovereign plan, and until that day comes, (or maybe it won't!!) there is work to be done.

"Our Father,
who art in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name,
Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us our day our daily bread,
and forgive our trespasses as we forgives those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen"

"All authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. Do not worry, I will be with you to the very end of the age"

-Jesus Christ





embarking on a new journey of life in my 20th year,


Curtis Joshua Ernest Nims