I'm Matt. My name means "gift from God". I enjoy the finer things in life such as being outside by the lake on a warm sunny day watching the birds fly by. This makes me remember who my God is. I am thankful for His grace and mercy that is bestoed upon me day in and day out. I am nothing without the grace and mercy of my Father. He has given me the talents that I need to be successful in life and it is my prayer that I will use those talents to the best of my abiltiy to please and praise the Host of Hosts. I am a senior at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro majoring in Design and minoring in Religion. I want to use my design degree to become a graphic artist and I want to be fluent in another language. I believe that God has placed me at UNCG for a reason because He has revealed Himself to me and shown me the errors of my ways. I have been saved since 1997, at a young age might I add, but it wasn't until this year that I really got serious with my relationship with God. Janurary of 2011 is when I fully gave my life over to Christ, trusting that He has forgiven me for what I did in my past and then to move on with life. I now realize that He has been with me always and He will never leave nor EVER forsake me. I look forward to seeing Him in His glory one day and it is my prayer that I will hear the words "Good job, good and loyal servant". Like I stated before I was saved at a young age in the 1st grade. I had accepted Him and I was going to church on a regular basis. It was the thing to do. Then middle school rolls around, I got into doing things that I knew were against what I was taught and I could'nt escape it. I struggled with Pornagraphy throughout Middle and High school. During those years, there wasn't any growth and I felt like a dead corpse just walking around and not getting anything out of the messages at my church. Fastforward to my senior year of high school. I was ready for a change in my life. I graduated with honors, I knew that I had ended a chapter of my life and moving onto college I was determined to make a change. I arrive at college and instantly I got involved with Cru and several bible studies. I grew so much in that semester than I had my whole walk. I felt like God was speaking to me but I wasn't responding. Christmas Break hit and I again felt that He was calling me. My pastor spoke on something and one of the last things He said was "God doesn't put us through things we can't overcome and nothing that we do was apart of His plan for us.
That hit me and it stayed on my mind all day. I get back to school and we have a prayer meeting with some friends and I could feel God speaking to me through a friend. She said God was standing right in front of me and that He was willing to cut the chord that was seperating me and porn. I was like whoa. I went down to my room, turned the lights out and prayed. I looked at myself forgave myself and then I layed down and I said "Father, take this I dont want it anymore" I felt a since of weight being lifted off my shoulders. I was a free man. God used all this for my benefit and it is my prayer that I would be used of Him to be a light to others that are going throught what I did.
