Ella’s Story
Before I officially realized Christ’s wondrous gift of salvation, it felt like my life was lacking a crucial portion of itself. I had grown up in a “Christian” home. We weren’t really religious: Sunday school as a kid, church every so often. I did the summer camp spiritual high bit, but nothing was permanent. I was searching for something to fill the void I had found in my life. It was as if a huge empty space was missing within my heart. I had thought that I was just missing the love of my “better-half,” who was nowhere in sight. I was searching for someone, and no one seemed to fit the profile. My life revolved around myself.
Then I came to NDSU. My life was continuing in the same manner as before: I had problems that I thought I could fix myself. One day I was leaving the W after lunch, and some students were handing out big yellow cups. I was about to walk by their table, when I had second thoughts. I turned around and filled out a survey in exchange for a yellow cup. And what a wonderful cup that was. Following the completion of the survey, I was invited to attend a Cru meeting and my dorm’s Bible study. My life will never be the same again. The love and support I found in the body of Cru was almost overwhelming. On a whim, I decided to attend Cru’s fall retreat, where I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior for the third time in my life, except this time, it was permanent.
My life has changed drastically in the past five months. The gap in my soul has been filled with the love of my God and Savior. He was always trying to get in, but I had shut him out. I am happier now than I have ever been, and my family here at NDSU is phenomenal. Accepting the Lord back into my life was the greatest decision I have ever made. I don’t claim to know a lot about it, but what I do know, that the Lord loves me unconditionally, is enough to make me want more. My walk with the Lord is only beginning…
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