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Jesus can sort a (your) life out

This entry was sent in by Renee B. He reports about how a Sunday school service changed his faith, or better said, his lack of faith, towards Jesus. You can use this to explain your path to/with Jesus to your kids telling them how it was and is.

In Luke 5 in the New Testament I have found a story which I would like to tell you in a concise version. Jesus came to a lake where a couple of fishermen had just come back from fishing. They had been on the lake for the whole night but hadn’t caught anything. Jesus went to the fisherman Simon Peter and said to him: Come Simon, sail back onto the water and try it once again. Simon believed that it would not be a success but he sailed his boat out again. The nets were hardly thrown out and they were already full. Simon was bowled over. He went to Jesus and said to him: Go away, I am a sinful person.

But Jesus replied: For now on you will fish for people.

What this little story wants to tell us is: Simon was a sinner and a person without faith, but by believing in Jesus Christ he became a new person: One of Jesus’ disciples.

„Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
(Corinthians 5, 17)

I can recognise the experience which Simon made in me and for myself.

I had lost the faith but I have slowly been finding my way back to Jesus and to the Holy Ghost for the last two years. Maybe my cousin’s accident which ended fatally gave me a sign to return to my faith.

That does not happen overnight but if we busy ourselves with the stories and read the bible we realise: hey, there is something in it all.

I would like to take new steps and leave the old behind me. I don’t want to force you to read the bible but please take a look. There are many interesting stories in it. You just have to give it a go.

„Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!”
(Corinthians 5, 17)

This saying simply fascinates me because it is never too late to starting believing in Jesus Christ.

As I was in Wuppertal, something asked me a very simple question: „Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for me?“ I could not give him an answer on that day. However the more I read the bible in that week and thought about the tales, the more clear the question became.

On the last day I could give him an answer. I said to him: „Yes, I believe that Jesus died on the cross for me and for our sins.“

An entry from Renee B., Pfalzdorf