God didn’t work in the way that I expected him to. I was doing all the right things. I was heavily involved in church, I went to Bible studies, I prayed and I kept most of the ten commandments. 

But there was such a detachment between what I thought God should do and what life Really looked like.

But, I started to read the Bible with an older and more mature Christian. He showed me from the Bible, what Jesus had done for me. For example, because God sent Jesus to earth to die in our place, we are already blessed if we accept him. This blessing is not predominantly that we can be ‘healthy, wealthy and wise’, but it is in knowing that God is no longer angry with us because this anger had been taken by Jesus when He died on the cross. 

That’s when it finally “clicked”, and I knew for sure that this blessing of peace and acceptance by God was already mine. I knew that I didn’t have to try and do things so that God could accept and bless me (everything had already been done in Jesus). Because of what Jesus has done, and who he is, I already have the belonging I’m looking for. 

So now that I feel accepted by God and the people around me, (because of what Jesus has done, not because of what I try to do) I can’t help but to try and show acceptance to others and I feel excited to let them know that True acceptance and true peace can be found in Jesus.