Joanna

Jojo // 1st Year // French

Throughout school I remember being obsessed with what people thought of me. I wanted to please everyone and was terrified of not being ‘good enough’ for whatever the social standard was. As a Christian I was constantly paranoid about being the stereotypically uncool religious girl.

Growing up in a Christian home, church and God were always part of life for me, but it wasn’t until I was about 10/11 years old that I went from seeing Christianity as my family’s faith to my personal relationship with Jesus and that’s when I decided for myself to ask God for forgiveness for my sins and follow Jesus.

I know now that the only one I need to be pleasing is God. By myself I will never be good enough to get to him but because God loves me and wants me in his family, he sent his son Jesus into the world to die for my sins and rise again so that I can live with him.

Knowing that the Creator of the universe loves and accepts me is such a relief and I would urge everyone to check out the life changing claims of Jesus for themselves!

‘For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God’ Ephesians 2:8