Glory Story: Freedom in Christ

So, I did a horrible job at keeping the blog updated during my time at camp because I had such little down time! However, God did SO much and of course I want people to know the ways I saw God move. Until I believe I have exhausted my stories, we are going into a time here on the Sweetest Field called Glory Stories. They are basically gonna be quick posts with just short little stories of how God revealed himself to me this summer!

Our first story is about FREEDOM. Holy Jesus, his freedom is so sweet and such a perfect present from the father.

So, during the fifth session of camp I had a camper named Sadie. She was a character. On opening day we get profiles on each camper and in there they have any comments their parents sent us about their child. They are called Red Flags which obviously doesn't make it sound like a good thing. So, Sadie's red flag said she had severe ADHD, but took medicine so it should be fine. My co-coaches were a little overwhelmed and put off at the thought of having an ADHD girl in their small group so I volunteered to have her.

She was indeed a handful. She was extremely outspoken, outgoing, and clingy--but at the same time she was hungry for more of God and pretty wise.

During our Wednesday night Gospel presentation I sat down to talk with Sadie about what she had seen and heard that night and if God was doing anything in her heart. She told me she had never asked Jesus into her heart before. We talked about it some more and once we felt she really understood and believed the Gospel she prayed the prayer. After that she looked at me and asked about all the sin she was going to do for the rest of her life. I got to tell her that all she had to do was pray to God and ask him to come and make her heart clean and forgive her and that he would do it right then and that she could pray that any time she wanted. At that, her eyes lit up. With urgency, she looked at me and said, "Can I do it right now?!" I said yes and explained to her how to pray. She just looked up at me with a huge smile and said, "I feel so FREE! I just feel like I could run around for hours!"

When we got up to go to the cabin she was still pretty blessed out. I looked at her and said, "Sadie, you can run to the cabin if you want." As she ran, I cried watching. It was one of the single most free moments I had ever seen and it wasn't even having to do with my own freedom. That was one of the moments that makes camp worth it.