A little about me…

My name is Jory Micah Ryan-Peterson.  I am 26 years old and have dedicated my life to Jesus.  This definitely does not mean that I am perfect, think I am good or have things all together.  It actually means the opposite.  To me, being a Christian means admitting I am imperfect, there is nothing good about me and the only thing that holds me together is my faith in Jesus Christ.  I gave my life to Jesus when I was 13-years-old which began an amazing, difficult, exciting, miserable and REAL journey with my Savior.  You see, if there is anything I have learned about being a Christian it is that Christ is interested in messing up our lives!  He loves us too much to leave us as we are.  He delights in changing us day by day by allowing us to struggle in our human state so that we can realize just how much we need Him.  He is interested in changing us (our character) into His image.  In other words, He wants us to stop looking so much like a self-centered, unloving and prideful human being and more like a loving and selfless being as He is.  If you think you are a selfless and a “good” person you have already admitted the pride in your heart to actually think that your “good deeds” are close to God’s goodness.  Think about it, no matter how good we think we are or others think we are; our goodness is like filthy rags compared to God’s goodness.  I use to think I was a hypocrite when I sinned because I called myself a Christian until I realized this too was my human pride believing that I can actually “not sin” just because I gave my life to Christ.  This is not to say God wants us to sin but more to say that God knows we are sinners and wants us to know it too so that we can be in a place where we will lay down our pride, accept His forgiveness and live our lives for Him.  I no longer worry so much about looking like a hypocrite as much as just being myself and living in awareness that it is God that is good and anything good I do is Him in me! I have journeyed with God for over 10 years now and will continue until I leave this earth to spend eternity with my Savior in Heaven!