Man…. I guess I would start with the fact that I am so thankful for the Grace of God, Lord knows I didn’t deserve it. I had a pretty tough life growing up never really had a lot but my parents did the best they could. Was in and out of church, was poor most of my life growing up,but I was also taught you have to work hard for things in life, always knew about God but never really lived for him. I really struggled most of my life and have always felt like I had to fight through so much, however I never gave up, a lot of times I would sit at night and ask God…. Why me? What have I done that is so bad that I deserve all this I have went through. And that’s how a lot of people are today. But as I grew up and overcome so many things, the struggles made me shut others out because just hard to trust people, around age 28 God blessed me with my Now Wife, and 2 amazing kids, even then I still never let hardly anyone into my circle, just didn’t want to be hurt and still had a wall up, for the first 20 years of our marriage we was involved in church, but never had the community that the Bible says we need, or accountability groups, I feel like we done a pretty good job raising our kids very respectful,humble and God fearing. But even still I know I wasn’t being the Godly father I was supposed to be, or the Godly husband. My now previous church I felt like I grew a lot in my walk with the Lord, I found a Godly Community of fellow believers, even though we have moved on we still have the same community of believers to help keep us on the path and hold us accountable for things we do/ don’t do. You know when your in the world you look at things differently, the world pushes (me,me,me) but the Bible teaches you to put others first, to love one another, to serve others, so it’s completely opposite from the worldly teachings. With that being said all those times I sat and asked God why me?, what did I do to deserve it? If you sit back and read what Jesus endured for our sins the only sinless one. He was beaten, spit on, talked down on, Crucified all for our sins, for the sins of the ones that done everything to him….. and yet when he hung on that cross he still said “father please forgive them!!!! It really changes your perspective on how we should Love, how we should live, I am so thankful that even though I wasn’t the Godly father to my kids and the Godly husband to my wife that God said if your not going to lead them I will. As I sit and look around today I do see growth in my spiritual walk, I feel like I have always tried to treat others right and have always cared for others but recently I’d say this past year ( I have still had some major challenges that I have went through. I do feel like God is present in my life and he is working.) God has surrounded me with several Godly Men and Women to help hold me accountable, help be living examples of how he wants us to live and love. And even though I am not sure what season I am in, I know God is preparing me for something and I just pray that I will be obedient to whatever he has for me next. I pray for my family that they continue to seek God and serve him. Lastly I pray that if your reading this and you don’t know God as your personal Lord and Savior please pray and ask God to be the Lord of your life!!! Give your troubles to him, he will cast your sins as far as the East is from the west. Your sins was washed by the blood, Jesus paid the cost. So that we may enter into the Kingdom of God. Give your life to God, Find yourself a Church, Hopefully surround yourself with fellow believers, Get yourself some accountability partners (very important) and let’s make Heaven A little more Crowded!!!!

• Bobby Luther 5/23/2025