Megan Merryman

I grew up going to church, but always believed God was too big to know me personally. I never really knew who God truly was or why Christ had to die for my sins. During my senior year of high school, one of my best friends invited me to her church. For the first time, I begin to understand a head knowledge of God’s love for me, but it never penetrated to my heart. I still lived the way I wanted to live and did the things I wanted to do. My freshman year of college I joined a sorority where one of the girls started connecting me with Christians. I got involved in an in-depth bible study and saw 2 major things. One was that I called myself a Christian, yet lived a completely different life. Two, the way they spoke about Jesus was unlike anything I had ever heard before. It seemed they had an intimate, deep relationship with Christ and had a love for Him I never knew was possible. Throughout this time, I began to realize that it was God’s love for me in that while I was still sinning, He sent down Christ to die in my place, to take the punishment I deserved; It was my sin that led Christ to die on the cross. Christ’s love peered into my heart, and I begin to live for Him, to look to Him and be willing to be used in however He wanted. Now, my goal, in whatever I do, is to make God’s love and beauty known, especially to those who are broken and hurting, because I have experienced His love myself.