Embracing God as your Savior means surrendering your worries, your plans, and your fears to His greater wisdom. It is choosing to trust that His love is steady, even when life feels uncertain. As you lean on Him, you begin to feel His peace guiding your decisions and strengthening your spirit. Seeking Him through prayer and reflection opens the door for His grace to shape your life. In accepting God as your Savior, you walk with a renewed sense of purpose, hope, and direction.
A few students from Long Beach Poly High school & Parable Leaders talked about them accepting God as their savior, and their walk renewed with a sense of purpose, hope, and direction. The questions they were asked were, “What is the biggest lesson God taught you this year? What is the most important lesson you’ve learned about your faith recently? & How has God used a difficulty in your life to help you grow?”
“This is David Urquhart with Parable. The most important lesson I’ve learned about my faith recently, I’d say it was the big step to transition ministries. I worked with crew(parable), which is a great ministry, and I love working with church partners, and that was a great experience, but I really felt strong that God was calling me to move to parable and work with the high school students here. And it was a step of faith. I have a family. I have 3 boys at home to provide for. So I support raising and transitioning ministries. I love being able to trust God and not knowing what’s going to happen on the other side. But knowing this is where God is leading, and following through, and watching him come in clutch, and then therefore he gets the glory rather than my own strength and strategy and having all the answers. So it was a step of faith for me to join parable, but I love it.” stated David Urquhart, a Parable Group Leader.
“You’re with Jordan G with Parable. One of the most important lessons I learned in my faith is learning to embrace God in ordinary life. I’ve learned to originally see God in ministry and also big responsibilities, which I think is true. But I’ve learned to embrace God in my faith through just simple things, like walking my dog, brushing my teeth, washing the dishes. You’d be surprised that I’ve experienced more of God in these little things than the big things. So, 1st Thessalonians implies to live simple lives. And so that’s what I’ve been doing.” Jordan G stated, a Parable Group Leader.
“The biggest lesson that God taught me this year,” stated Cory Adger, a Long Beach Poly Student; “is to surrender. Surrender my will, my fears, my anxieties, all those things before him, and he’ll take them and turn them into something truly beautiful. Like, he’ll take my fear and turn it into courage. He’ll take my anxiety and turn it into stillness and calmness. So, really surrender my worries. Then the most important lesson that I learned about my faith is that I cannot serve two masters. And that’s something that I’ve always known, but especially now, it’s those masters that you don’t even know you’re serving. So when I’m walking in fear and when I’m walking in anxiety, that’s another master. That’s not the Lord. So I have to surrender those other desires and those other thoughts of fear and give them to the Lord. Finally the difficulties; the Lord has definitely continued to kind of keep me isolated, you know those positions, even when I self isolate, you know, he still shows that he’s there for me, even in those moments. He’s really trying to push me out of my comfort zone and into his love.”
Freddie Paris states, a Long Beach Poly Student, “ The biggest lesson God has taught me this year is probably that if we don’t change the way that we live our lives sometimes, that we may turn into the things that we very much do hate. Then the most important lesson I’ve learned about my faith recently is that failure is inevitable and, in fact, you’re put into this world to fail, but through God is the way we succeed. A Way that God has used a difficulty in my life to help me grow is; Well, quick backstory. When I grew up, my dad and I sold shirts at malls and outlets and stuff like that. And I never used that ability of social skills and getting to know people and selling and marketing things to people until, at the end of winter camp, they had us go and evangelize the people in malls. And to me, it was very easy because it’s kind of pitching something to a person, trying to sell them something. And it just became easy for me. I know over time I started to evangelize more and more by myself and on other trips and stuff. And I grew to evangelize to over 200 people in malls outlets on the streets, on the beach and even in Panama. So yeah.”
As you’ve read previously Poly students and even Parable leaders have stated that God will shine to you even in your darkest moments, and he’ll take you down the right path no matter if you like it or not. Walking with God is like walking through a rocky terrain in the middle of the night, but then you just have the light that’s guiding you through every crack and crevice. That’s Jesus lighting your way.