Prompt: Write an essay in which you tell us about someone who has made an impact on your life and explain how and why this person is important to you.
ESSAY A:
Throughout our lives milestones will placed down that can define who we are. Sometimes, a milestone can be a person that has helped shape our mind and day to day actions. In my case, I have blessed beyond understanding to have been introduced to the person who has changed my life, his name is Jesus Christ. Although I have not met him face to face, Jesus has warped my life goal into helping others instead of only thinking of me.
I had always lived my everyday life simply thinking of myself and searching for my own personal gain. Being raised in church, I knew the simplicities of what was right and wrong, but I never grasped what a true and fulfilling relationship with Jesus would be like. While I was in eighth grade, I only thought of myself and although I went to church, all I cared about were the "cool" friends I started to gain and trying to become popular. During that year, my thoughts were judgmental and I always thought I was better than others. But in the summer before my freshman year of high school the truth was finally revealed before my eyes. I was enabled to go to my first church camp and my entire perspective of life changed permanently. At that church camp I felt Jesus seep into my heart and soul and a fire was born within me.
Unlike many people, I have been able to keep that fire aflame and am using it to proclaim the Lord's glorious and great name by putting others before myself. Anyone can declare they are a Christian, but to live what they preach is a rare virtue in people. Now that I can see the world for what it is, I challenge myself to be a better and more productive citizen in the world. At my church, I actively serve others at a new and amazing ministry called "Samelight Ministries". Every Tuesday my Christian friends and I go to a trailer park by a middle school, and we help the children that are normally neglected there through athletic activities, biblical skits and worship, all the while spreading the good news of Jesus. At school, other opportunities such as cleaning up parks, helping set up city wide charity events and collecting cans of food for the needy came to my door step.
I realize now that if I had not met Jesus, then I would not be the humbled public servant I am today. Without Jesus I would not have the joyful heart for our society that has been molded now because the path I was on was one of selfishness and not of giving. I could have been climbing the popularity polls and continuing to be the narcissistic person I was if I didn't meet my savior, but that's fortunately not what happened. Instead, Christ humbled me and a new sense of love seeped into me for other people. He changed me so dramatically, that now I can see the difference between the new and old me. I once judged people for the way they looked and believed revenge was the answer for a wrong doing, but now my eyes only see love for people and I have been humbled to understand that forgiving is the only right act when wronged. Jesus took my once hardened heart and softened it so that I would understand that we are made to love one another and to forgive others.
Jesus took me out of the "me first" mindset, and gave me a new purpose for my life. He is the most important person in my life because of this. Through his grace and overwhelming help he has changed the very purpose of my existence for the best possible route. Although I have not met him face to face, Jesus has warped my life's goal into helping others instead of only thinking of me.
ESSAY A:
Throughout our lives milestones will placed down that can define who we are. Sometimes, a milestone can be a person that has helped shape our mind and day to day actions. In my case, I have blessed beyond understanding to have been introduced to the person who has changed my life, his name is Jesus Christ. Although I have not met him face to face, Jesus has warped my life goal into helping others instead of only thinking of me.
I had always lived my everyday life simply thinking of myself and searching for my own personal gain. Being raised in church, I knew the simplicities of what was right and wrong, but I never grasped what a true and fulfilling relationship with Jesus would be like. While I was in eighth grade, I only thought of myself and although I went to church, all I cared about were the "cool" friends I started to gain and trying to become popular. During that year, my thoughts were judgmental and I always thought I was better than others. But in the summer before my freshman year of high school the truth was finally revealed before my eyes. I was enabled to go to my first church camp and my entire perspective of life changed permanently. At that church camp I felt Jesus seep into my heart and soul and a fire was born within me.
Unlike many people, I have been able to keep that fire aflame and am using it to proclaim the Lord's glorious and great name by putting others before myself. Anyone can declare they are a Christian, but to live what they preach is a rare virtue in people. Now that I can see the world for what it is, I challenge myself to be a better and more productive citizen in the world. At my church, I actively serve others at a new and amazing ministry called "Samelight Ministries". Every Tuesday my Christian friends and I go to a trailer park by a middle school, and we help the children that are normally neglected there through athletic activities, biblical skits and worship, all the while spreading the good news of Jesus. At school, other opportunities such as cleaning up parks, helping set up city wide charity events and collecting cans of food for the needy came to my door step.
I realize now that if I had not met Jesus, then I would not be the humbled public servant I am today. Without Jesus I would not have the joyful heart for our society that has been molded now because the path I was on was one of selfishness and not of giving. I could have been climbing the popularity polls and continuing to be the narcissistic person I was if I didn't meet my savior, but that's fortunately not what happened. Instead, Christ humbled me and a new sense of love seeped into me for other people. He changed me so dramatically, that now I can see the difference between the new and old me. I once judged people for the way they looked and believed revenge was the answer for a wrong doing, but now my eyes only see love for people and I have been humbled to understand that forgiving is the only right act when wronged. Jesus took my once hardened heart and softened it so that I would understand that we are made to love one another and to forgive others.
Jesus took me out of the "me first" mindset, and gave me a new purpose for my life. He is the most important person in my life because of this. Through his grace and overwhelming help he has changed the very purpose of my existence for the best possible route. Although I have not met him face to face, Jesus has warped my life's goal into helping others instead of only thinking of me.
