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So if you have been coming to club this semester you’ve heard a little bit about whom Jesus is, what He did for us on the cross and who we are because of all of that. And for some of you, you might have heard all of this stuff for the first time or have heard it before but understood in it a new way and maybe you said yes to Jesus and have started a relationship with him or maybe you still have questions and are still unsure about the whole thing. Or you might have heard all of it a thousand times before and accepted Christ when you were 10 and maybe you’ve been totally all in ever since then or maybe it’s honestly all kind of become old news or maybe some hard stuff has happened and you aren’t sure about it all anymore. If you are in any of those places, I totally feel you. I’ve been there. Today I’m supposed to talk about life with Christ and …show more content…

I have always been bad at being vulnerable and showing my emotions. I have literally cried three times in 2016. I hate letting other people see my weaknesses and I am very good at putting up a wall that makes everyone think that everything is ok. But behind the wall, I felt so empty. I felt so alone, I felt like no one knew me or cared about me. I felt so empty, like a robot; I didn’t feel any emotions. I felt like I didn’t have a purpose. I felt like God was very far away like David did. I felt trapped in my head, wrestling with all of these thoughts like David said. But no one knew. To everyone else, I had it all together which made me feel like such a fake. I was doubting my faith and ability. But the thing is, in the middle of that darkness, Jesus was there. No matter how alone I felt, Jesus was with me. No matter how unloved or unlovable I felt, Jesus loved me. And because of that I could have real freedom from all of the darkness and the lies in my head. And even though it really didn’t feel like it at the time, it was

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