Life Verse
My life verse has been with me since my senior year of high school. Yes that is almost 15 years. (Telling my age). And no, I don’t care what you say, I am NOT a millennial. My age/year of birth may say it, but let’s make one thing clear, I am NOT a Millennial. Ok I’m off my soap box now. So it was a month or two before graduation and I kept seeing 11:11pm. Isn’t it odd that certain numbers tend to stick out to us more than others? I would fall asleep, and for some reason, I would wake up at 1:11am. I remember from the Bible, God would send different signs/messages to his people so that they would follow him. Well, I started picking up my Bible each evening (technically morning) and would skim through different books of the Bible. I would look through Psalms, Proverbs, the Gospels, I could not find anything. I mean, I read a lot of good scripture, don’t get me wrong. And sometimes they were verses that I needed to hear. It wasn’t until my sophomore year of college that I found my life verse. Heck, I’m not sure I even really knew what one was until then. There were points in my life, as with many Christians I’m sure, that you have your closer times with God, and not so closer times with God.
In college, I was close, but not intimate with God. Yes, I went to church, joined Christian groups, was in a Christian relationship with a guy, but never had a close intimate relationship with God nor knew what he could do in my life. It’s like I would give him certain parts of my life here and there. It wasn’t until I thought I had hit rock bottom in a relationship that I would start the journey to finding my intimate relationship with God. However, that is a different story for a different time. During my sophomore year of college, the guy I was dating talked about his life verse. I was like, so was this given to you? Did you just choose one you liked? He chuckled and said “No honey, God told me what it was.” Ok so I’m not going to lie, I thought he was crazy. I had never had God tell me things like this (that I knew of). Maybe he had, and I just wasn’t listening. Well a few nights later, I started waking up at 1:11am again. And I would catch myself glancing at the clock either in class or when I was studying; 11:11am; 11:11pm. What does this mean? I finally went to a close friend of mine, told them about the number, just as I had seen in high school a few years back. My friend’s wise words…. “Pray about it.” Are you serious? You can’t just tell me what it is? What kind of advice was this? So finally, all my pride, neglect, and doubt aside, I began to pray.
I asked God to show me what it was he wanted me to see. I also asked him to show me a life verse to live by. I’m sure I asked for a lot more that night such as acing a test or midterm I had coming up. But, that evening, at The Well, we learned about Faith. Starting in Hebrews 11:1 “Now, faith is being sure of what we hope for, but certain of what we do not see.” Wow! There is the WOW factor! That is what I had been missing and searching for. Right there in those few words; faith. Little did I know, this verse would help me through the next ten or so years. This verse has helped me through so much, and is God’s reminder to me that he is right there by us. We may not always be able to see his ways or understand them. All we have to do is have faith. Faith in God, and faith in his power.
Does anyone have a life verse? If so I’d love for you to share it with me.
