God's NOT Dead

The title of this post comes from a *movie I had the opportunity to go and see tonight and I **song I have come to love through listening to Christian rock on Pandora. I guess you could say I had a "conversion moment"tonight while watching it. Most of you know that I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints- a lot of people refer to us as Mormons. I am a proud member of the church and this movie is something that I highly suggest anyone see.

A few messages hit me hard from this movie but one stuck out the most:

Where do you find your hope?

Now because I know that I have a Savior, Jesus Christ, and I have the knowledge that He died for me that I might live, I knew my answer right away. But I realized that this is something that I take for granted sometimes. So many people don't know what I know. Many people once knew what I know but have lost their faith.

So I am asking you to ask yourself, "Where do I find my hope?"

I know that I have a Savior who loves me and that the sacrifice He made for me was so that I might live and return to live with my Father in Heaven. I know that in Him and only Him, there is true and everlasting hope; hope that there is good, that good is coming, and that good has always been there. Hope can be yours if you just "knock".

God is not dead. He is alive in all of us whether we want to believe it or not. Now it is up to us to let Him thrive in us or not. I know that through Him I can thrive in this life. He offers a freedom that I don't have the ability to put into words and that only He can offer us.

I know that my Redeemer lives,
What comfort this sweet sentence gives.



*Here is the movie "God's Not Dead" I am referring to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMjo5f9eiX8

**Here is the music video to the song I am referring to by the Newsboys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OTz-lpDjw&feature=kp