{"id":1298,"date":"2024-08-26T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/?page_id=1298"},"modified":"2024-08-26T13:17:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T13:17:04","slug":"he-still-accepted-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/en\/he-still-accepted-me\/","title":{"rendered":"He Still Accepted Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1298\" class=\"elementor elementor-1298\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-40b83f1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"40b83f1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-26a64ae\" data-id=\"26a64ae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4906ee elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"c4906ee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280-682x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1299\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/moktashef.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/father-2212092_1280.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-96e8702\" data-id=\"96e8702\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9fb7bb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b9fb7bb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">He Still Accepted Me<br><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4dbc41d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4dbc41d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">by: Hanny<br><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aeaf7e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aeaf7e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I grew up in a nice home where my family knew Jesus and went to church regularly. I knew the Bible to the point where I could even correct my teachers. However, the Bible was never something I thought much of. To me it was simply another set of lessons that I learned while growing up, similar to math or history, nothing more. As I grew up, I eventually grew to resent the Bible and the lessons I had to sit through its teachings, feeling as though I had nothing new to learn and, later, nothing I believed. Finally, I had enough, I let my friends and family know that I did not believe the Bible and I wanted to live for myself.<\/p><p>At this time, I went off to college. I partied, drank, smoked, and did whatever I wanted to, thinking that having fun was all that was important. I lived for myself, just how I had wanted to, and I was miserable. Everything began to feel meaningless and hollow. I began to feel hollow.<\/p><p>Then I heard a song. I had heard this song so many times before, when I was young, but this time I felt like I truly heard it for the first time. The song spoke of everything that I was feeling, the emptiness, the meaninglessness, of living for myself, and how only in Jesus was there meaning. I listened to the song as many times as I could, shocked that the answer to everything I was looking for was already available to me, that I had turned my back on what I wanted the most. I chose to go back to Church, and sought out Jesus for myself. For the first time I found myself fascinated by stories that used to bore me, and found new meaning in lessons I thought I knew by heart. In Jesus I found meaning and purpose, things I had sought in frivolity, and returned to his arms, in the same way the Prodigal Son did. Jesus still wanted me, even after I had rejected Him, He still loved me and wanted me to know Him.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He Still Accepted Me by: Hanny I grew up in a nice home where my family knew Jesus and went to church regularly. I knew the Bible to the point where I could even correct my teachers. However, the Bible was never something I thought much of. 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