| My grandparents had given me a Bible and they wanted me to ready it everyday. On this one particular evening I didn't have anything else to do, so I decided to take a good look at my Bible and see what it had to say. I looked at the index in the back and found that it covered all these different subjects.
So I looked up subjects like friendship and love and found the Bible to be very true, very pure, in a way which I wanted to live my life. From then on I began reading about the Lord's life and His love for all people. Eventually, I accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.
I think there's a confidence knowing that everything is in God's hands. I see so many things happening in my life and I know that they aren't just coincedences. I know that the Lord loves me, that He looks out for me and that He will always be with me and walk with me. It just brings me a great deal of satisfaction and comfort to know that no matter what happens, He will always take care of me.
I've also learned that the Lord only asks that you go and you give your best for Him. I think it's very easy to get very frustrated sometimes. There are times when you go out, you try your best and for some people, it's just not good enough.
Yet, I feel that God has given me this wonderful talent of playing tennis. I realize that I would not be where I am in tennis without the Lord, without Him giving me the strength to be able to do what I do.
What's nice is that, as long as my priorities are set and my priorities are straight, I'm able to go out with the mentality to really leave the winning and losing up to the Lord.
You know, when you give your best, it's all He asks of you, it's all you can ask of yourself and it's really all people can ask of you. I think that life is really too short to be so caught up in the things of the world. Just go out and give your best. To me that's pretty simple.
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