How Did the 9-11 Tragedy Change Julie's Life? CQ Podcast Highlight
Everyone's road to following Jesus is different and for CQ Contributor, Julie, the September 11th tragedy sent her life in a whole new direction. For the whole conversation, listen to the full podcast now: https://christianquestions.com/character/1300-new-christian/
Well, that makes me think of my story. You know, I grew up in a Christian household where the lines of right and wrong were pretty clearly drawn. My grandfather was a minister, my great-grandfather was a minister. But teenagers and young adults like to test boundaries and find where they fit in. And I was definitely different from my peers, but not different enough. God was always a huge part of my life, but I could compartmentalize and I could rationalize thinking, saying and doing things that I knew wasn't compatible to what I knew was a better path. And now everything we've talked about so far, the sacrifice, transformation, I was taught these scriptures from birth and I did sit down and co count the cost numerous times, but the cost was always too high because the world out there was too attractive. And then the world changed on nine 11.
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And on nine 11 I lost many friends and coworkers in the World Trade Center. And I was supposed to physically be at a meeting that was canceled there a week earlier. Suddenly the end of the world was a real possibility and people had no answers for this level of evil. I cried for months as the individual stories of these victims were told, and I wanted to just help them. And I realized the best way to help everyone heal on a permanent basis in the kingdom would be for me to give my life to the Lord and let him decide how to best use me. And being baptized, I'll never forget what it felt like to be raised from the water with a feeling of being clean, being new, no more ick, starting fresh and realizing my life is not my own, but it was bought with a price and I never regretted it.
It's interesting to me, Julie, how your story is so different from Jonathan's.
