Topics:<\/b> Adversity; Attitudes; Crisis; Faith; Growth; Hardship; Knowing God; Perspective; Presence of God; Priorities; Salvation; Spiritual Growth; Suffering; Testimony; Tragedy; Trials<\/p>\n
References:<\/b> Luke 19:10; John 3:16; Romans 3:23\u201324; 8:28; 10:9\u201310; 2 Corinthians 7:10<\/p>\n
Before I decided to live for Christ, I\u2019d party with friends. As a guy who wanted to be a \u201ccool and popular jock,\u201d I\u2019d drink, act stupid, and end up making a fool of myself. But I didn\u2019t care, because I was popular and one of my school\u2019s top athletes. As for God, I thought he was for weak people. If Christians tried to tell me about Jesus, I\u2019d make fun of them. Then something happened my sophomore year that changed everything.<\/p>\n
My sister Ashley, who was a freshman at the time, was riding in a car driven by one of her friends. Worried about getting home late, Ashley\u2019s friend started speeding. The car hit a rough railroad track and flipped over. Ashley soon lay in a hospital on life support, very close to death.<\/p>\n
At first I was angry with God for what happened to my sister. I shouted, \u201cIf you are who you say you are, how could you let this happen?\u201d As angry as I was at God, I began to think about how much I loved my family. I had cared about them before, but all those trips to the hospital and all those times we cried together brought us much closer together. My family suddenly seemed more important than anything else in the whole world.<\/p>\n
Even though my sister managed to survive, we were told her brain injury was so severe she\u2019d probably never walk or talk again. But in the months that followed, I helped coach her as she struggled to stand, and then, eventually, take a few tiny steps. I listened in amazement as she began to put words together and form sentences. Very slowly, she was getting better. And very slowly, I was starting to change.<\/p>\n
I thought a lot about God and his place in everything that had happened. Instead of blaming him for the accident, I began to thank him for my sister\u2019s life and for my family. I also began to see that all those things I\u2019d lived for\u2014like partying and acceptance by the popular crowd\u2014weren\u2019t really important. Even sports no longer seemed important.<\/p>\n
I started going to youth group and found I liked having conversations with my friends about God and Christianity. I wanted to know as much as I could about following God. During my junior year, I committed my life to Christ.<\/p>\n
\u2014Dustin Armstrong, \u201cMy Faith Is My Witness,\u201d Ignite Your Faith<\/i> (June\u2013July 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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