You Were Made For More- Book Report

         If there's one thing that I would have to say that I don't like doing, it's reading. However, I always find that after I force myself to read a book, I end up loving it. Especially with my time here at Pottersfield, they seem to do an amaizing job of giving us books that have to do with exactly what were going to face and what we are personally going through. Throughout my life, my parents always told me that I was made for more than what I think I am. Of course I figured they were just saying that because they wanted me to strive for exellence. I now look back at my life and see how God has prepared me to face the things that He has put in my life today. Which, why my life isn't even half way over, so much more than I ever could have imagined.
          I know it may sound cheesy, but the title of this book, You Were Made For More, completely says what this book is about. This book tells the stories of both men in biblical times as well the accounts of personal testimonies in how God has taken an "average" persons life and change it around and then continue to use that changed heart for the furtherance of His kingdom. In a way that, like the book is titled, that person would have never expected. While at a young age I never realized it, but the godly men in Bible times were just like the godly men of today, meaning they searched for God just like us, they grew closer to Him just like us, and they failed just like us. I guess I always looked at the men of the Bible as these devout men of God who were in a sense Holy and better than everyone else. This definatley is not the case, but I feel like at a younger age i never noticed all the sins that those men had commited back in those days. Now that I'm older, however I see that they face the same problems that we, as Christians face today.
          It encourages me so much to be able to look at the lives of those who have gone before me and see how God had used them to do such great things. While I am just now starting my real walk with Christ, not resting on my parents faith, I can see already how Christ is moving through me and guiding my life with His divine plan. I would have never imagined two years ago that I would be living in Guatemala for 8 months serving and giving my all to grow closer to Christ. It's amaizing to see that God is already using me for so much more than I could have ever imagined and to know that He is just going to continue to bring me closer and closer to Him and farther and farther away from what I thought I would be doing with me life. I know understand that I was truely made for more.