Two years ago this weekend I gave my life to Christ. Two years ago this weekend I became a Christian. Two years ago this weekend I embarked on the craziest, most intense ride of my life. 

Looking back on these past two years, across the vast canyon of my experiences, insights, struggles, accomplishments, relationships, and moments, I can’t help but think, Did I live these past two years in a manner worthy of the title of being Christian? Did I live in a manner that brought a smile of pride across my fathers face? Was my time marked: anointed with His grace and fulfilled through my action? Was I courageous in the face of discomfort? Did I turn away when I was persecuted? What did the past two years of my life say to others?

I know it hasn’t been all that clean. I have had my fair share of run ins with plenty of dumpsters, mud pits, and sewer drains. But at the end of the day, His grace falls like rain, and I am a new creation. I was made new two years ago MLK weekend, and that light that was ignited within has only become more radiant. 

I guess the question I am left with is, What will this next year of my life say about who lives inside of me? What will tomorrow show, when it comes to whose kingdom I belong to? And what am I going to do to make sure that that kingdom comes before my own desires?

I am investing in and discovering what that looks like in my life. But what about yours?