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This is me

By admin on August 30, 2020February 17, 2022

Hey hey! My name is Ainsley Markou and I’m ready to get out my comfort zone!! One thing about me is I can be very shy at points so I am guilty of never getting out my comfort zone but this year… we all know has been one heck of a year. This year has moved my life around and I am honestly a completely new person.

Let’s just jump into it. My life has definitely been a roller coaster! I have never really had a relationship with Christ. I never gave him all of me, he was just my guest who I welcomed when I felt alone and abandoned. I never understood the concept of giving God everything. Let me tell you, the world brings you a temporary smile; however, God gives you an eternal life of joy. I would put everything I have to the world because I was so terrified to be alone. Every time I turned to Jesus I would be known as the “Jesus freak” and I would deny it every time because I didn’t want people to think of me differently. I never read my bible because I thought of it as boring and just hard to understand. When I was at church I worshiped just because I saw the people around me raise their hand and when I prayed it was to just close my eyes well the pastor said a prayer I completely ignored. I didn’t understand what a relationship with Jesus meant. I grew up in a Christian household so I would go to school to do the normal “cool thing” I would cuss and follow everyone else’s footsteps not wanting to stand out. This year we obviously have had tons of time on our hands with quarantine so I decided to open my bible. I remember I decided to flip to a random book in the bible and I opened it to Colossians. I began to read and came across Colossians 1:22 (“But now he has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him”). I instantly paused and was blown away by just one sentence. God sent his only perfect son to die for we could not just be saved but presented as sinless. I read over that verse at least a million times and that when I decided to commit to taking time to get to know Jesus and what a relationship with him meant. Over time I began to take time in my room to worship and devote prayer towards him. I slowly started to understand and my life began to fall into place. August 17, 2020, was the day I thought to myself I’m ready. I prayed and prayed that night over a huge decision and I finally said yes. That Friday (9/21/20) I said yes and got baptized. My life has changed. I have been happier then I have ever been and for the first time I don’t wont to be in a shell all the time, I want to get out and let everyone know my story! I’m done walking alone and I want others to walk with me!!

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