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By Matthew Lanza

The goodness of God is a never-ending story that could take hours to describe. However, there is a way to describe it briefly by about .0000000000001%. He is the most loving and charitable father anybody could ever ask for. He is my greatest influence, and the reason I can live and breathe, which is why I am writing about Him. I capitalize “Him” because it is one of His many names.

I’ve been raised in church my whole life, but only recently did I fully give myself over to loving, serving, and following Him. Being raised in church I always saw going to church on Sunday, praying, praising God, and “going by the book” as my weekly routine. I thought as long as I was a Christian on Sunday I could do whatever I wanted to on Monday through Saturday, but little did I know that God had bigger plans for me. All my life I wanted something more. I knew there was more to life but I didn’t know what it was. Was it God, the world, public school, or maybe drugs? Who knows? I thank God He stopped me from ever exploring any of these things due to a loving and strong family. I talked to many “friends” that told me things I wanted to believe, but I knew they weren’t true. On and on I went doing whatever I could to try and explore what else there was, but God wouldn’t allow it. Every time I tried to slip away God grasped on to me. There was no way out.

I finally stopped and asked myself what I wanted, what I thought was out there, and what I thought truth was. So I began to pray, and immediately God spoke to me and said, “there’s more than just ‘the routine’ in Me: dig deeper.” So I started digging (spiritually). I dug and dug, and I’m still digging to this day. I’ve found more in God than I could ever imagine, and now my daily routine is discovering what new things I can find in God and His word. I’ll never stop digging, for I know there’s always something new to find if you search with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength for the truth, which is in Jesus Christ.