About Me

I’ve been overthrown.

I used sit on the throne in my life; or at least, I thought I did. I was a mess of pride and selfishness. Of course, most people probably never would have thought that, seeing as I was usually the good kid. I never got in trouble, and I treated people well most of the time. But looks can be deceiving. I was wasting my life away living it as I pleased. Everything I did was all for myself. I was obsessed with myself.

Then something happened. I don’t know exactly when it happened, but my life was changed. Slowly but surely, the pride slowly started to melt away, and I recognized that pride and selfishness for what they really were: sin. God had created me and sustained my life through it all, but I was squandering the time and life he had given me. I hated that I was doing that, and I wanted to change.

God had overthrown the sorry government of my life, the one I was trying to run myself. He took a seat on the throne, and then things started happening. I wanted to be more than a good kid; I wanted to serve God and give glory to his name. I wanted to worship him with my life and love him with everything I had in me. I wanted to get rid of the sin I had no hope of overcoming on my own. And I wanted to live in Heaven for all of eternity, because it means living with Him forever.

The more I’ve lived this way, the more I realize that it’s impossible to do on my own. Even with God’s Spirit at work in me, it will be a work in progress until the day I die. But I live waiting for the day I see the Lord. I’ll stand before Him when I die with absolutely nothing to offer Him. “I deserve to be sent to Hell,” I should tell Him. Because that’s the truth. We all deserve it, because we have all sinned and fallen short of His glory (Romans 8: 28). But I will stand before Him righteous on that day, because my debt has been paid (Colossians 2: 13-14). He is my Lord and my King, and He is also my Savior. He came to earth in the form of a man named Jesus Christ so He could live a perfect life and die as a perfect sacrifice that would pay the debt my sin has gotten me into. He has ransomed me, and because of His work, God looks at me and sees His righteousness. That is a glorious thing, and I want to live my life sold out for the one who gave His life for me. I want to give glory to Him alone. Soli Deo Gloria.

This blog is simply a place for me to share my thoughts with you, dear reader, whether it be random, hopefully profound and insightful musings, thoughts on God’s Word, or recommendations and reviews of music I’ve been listening to (because I like music… a lot). I hope you enjoy the writings I post here, but above all else I pray that they make you draw nearer to God.

“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.” (2 Corinthians 5: 14-15)

Soli Deo Gloria
Joe