So I am a Young Life leader at Westerville North High School. I think that Young Life is the best ministry for high schoolers, and I don't only think that because I'm bias. I just think Young Life does the best job of relating to kids right where they're at and giving them exactly what they need, Jesus.
Anyways, through my leading, I have experienced more and more the fact that I am absolutely nothing. Not nothing in the way that I mean nothing, nothing in the sense that God is everything. Basically, He must become greater, I must become less. God has shown me that He doesn't need me. But He uses me none the less. Amazing. Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough, meeting enough girls, loving them enough...and for some reason, I feel that their salvation is dependent upon that. As if my existence in their life is going to change their lives. I have recently learned that this couldn't be farther from the truth.
Feeling as though I am responsible for saving the hundreds of students at Westerville North has given me an unreal amount of stress lately. I have been blessed to find out that that simply is not true. God changes people. Jesus changes people. The cross saves lives. Not me, or anything I can do. This is quite possibly the greatest news ever, aside from the grace of the cross. It gives me the FREEDOM to share Christ with people and let Christ take over. It gives me the FREEDOM to love girls, but have them depend on Christ instead of myself.
I'm glad that even when I do absolutely nothing, I can know and be confident in the fact that God is still going to work, and still going to change the girls at Westerville North who so desperately need Him, as I do.
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