One INCREDIBLE love- Background

I accepted Christ when I was 7ish. I would say my faith became my own during the summer after my 8th grade year. In the past 5 months I have come to a standstill awe of who my God is and what he has done in MY life. Stories of miraculous heart transformations are so glorified in the American church. I don't think that is wrong, it shows the love, mercy, and power of my God. About 4 months ago I was praying, kinda embarrassed that I had backed down during a situation where I could have shared what I believed with a Muslim woman. I realized that although God has proven himself again and again in my life, I just see it as normal. I have never gone through a phase where I walked away from God. I didn't fall into the sins that the world can see; drugs, sex, alcohol, and cursing. I didn't have a prodigal return. So I thought my story of salvation was a little too boring for anyone to hear. When people asked my my story I would repeat the first two lines of this post to them. I didn't really think my story had anything else to it... it was boring. I don't know exactly what I was thinking when I started writing these in my journal, but I wanted to discover what it was that made my story INCREDIBLE. Why did God choose me but so many others in this world die everyday not knowing or accepting the gift of salvation. I don't want to die like so many other Christians just accepting the gift, but not having the faith that my God is powerful, sovereign, and loving enough to do all the things he did in the Bible. One of the things I have surrendered to God is my dreams of marriage, kids, and a big beautiful house. Not because those things are bad, but because God has something different in store for my life. So this is my love story of how God is taking my life from boring to INCREDIBLE by helping me discover who he is and his heart for my life. 

you know growing up i was always a good kid. i did the right things and said the right things (well most of the time). but truth is as i got into high school and started to hear all the spectacular stories of how people were saved, and what they were saved from, i began to feel boring. i began to believe that i couldn't share my faith until i had a cool story to share with it. the thing is God has blessed me my entire life. i believed that he died for me and saved me early in life and have not encountered any mojor life altering events since. so i began to get comfortable. i could go to church, serve in children's ministry, and dream big. it all fit in well with the plan, with my plan, with my parents plan, and with the american dream. the problem is, it didn't really fit with God's plan. now i don't mean He came down with a roadmap or burning bush telling me where to go, what to do and how to do it. no He provided me with an INCREDIBLE book: the Bible. the problem is, i wanted something a little more flashy than that. but recently i have been convicted by just how INCREDIBLE He is. He doesn't do boring. He doesn't do virtual. He does. period. He goes. period. He loves. period. it is so simple that we work to make it more complicated, because complicated allows for excuses. He didn't. through this story, through my story, through our (God and i) story i have come to realize that as a daughter of God i am loved in a way no other being can ever compare to. i am loved by my Creator, Father, Best Friend, and Groom in one INCREDIBLE indescribable being.