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The first in our series of testimonies, we present to you Playdough. Emcee, producer, freestyle champion, solo artist and a member of the supercrew, Deepspace5. We asked him how following Jesus makes a difference in his life. Hopefully his story will help & encourage you in your life.
“I was raised in a church going home. I really started focusing on living for God when I got to High School. I was involved in everything that had to do with God and felt obligated to do so. If I loved the Lord, I had to be involved in everything my church was doing.
Once I started college and moved out on my own, I realized that in a new city nobody knew me. They didn’t know anything about me or the fact that I was a follower of Christ. I was used to everyone knowing what I was about and realized that the reason I had been making decisions to ‘do the right thing’ was because I was afraid that if anyone saw me doing otherwise they’d think I was fake. Now that I was in a new city with no pressure to make Godly decisions I started living for myself.
It took a few months of me making horrible decisions and regrets before I realized that all my life I hadn’t been living right not because of my love for God, but because of my fear of my reputation and the people I knew. Even though I had been making good decisions, they were for the wrong reasons. That’s when I realized the importance of having a personal relationship with Christ. It’s not just knowing about him, but knowing him. That revolutionized my thinking and my attitude about God. I had never felt more free in Christ and am still discovering that freedom that only comes through knowing him, not just knowing about him. I care less what anyone thinks about me because at the end of the day I only need to please God.”
