My Life Story

Eli’s Prayer

Dear Lord, thank you for giving me the strength and the conviction to complete the task you entrusted to me. Thank you for guiding me straight and true, through the many obstacles in my path. And for keeping me resolute when all around seemed lost. Thank you for your protection and for your many signs along the way. Thank you for any good that I may have done. I’m so sorry about the bad. Thank you for the friend I made. Please watch over her as you watched over me. Thank you for finally allowing me to rest. I’m so very tired. But I go now to my rest in peace knowing that I have done right with my time on this earth.
I have fought the good fight. 
I have finished the race.
I have kept the faith.

Amen.

Watch The Book of Eli it is beautiful

Luke 24:1-12

(1) But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. (2) And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, (3) but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. (4) While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. (5) And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? (6) He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, (7) that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” (8) And they remembered his words, (9) and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. (10) Now it was Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, (11) but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. (12) But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.

Happy Easter my brothers & sisters!

G.O.S.P.E.L.

We are eternally separated and the only way to fix it is someone dying in your place.  And that person has to be perfect or that payment isn’t permanent.  So if and when you find a perfect person get him or her to willingly trade their perfection for your sin and debt.  Clearly the only one that can meet this criteria is God. God sent himself as Jesus to pay the cost for us.  His righteousness, His death, functions as payment. Yes. Payment. Wrote a check with His life, and at the resurrection we all cheered because that means the check cleared.  Anyone and EVERYONE and by EVERYONE I mean EVERYONE who puts their faith and trust in Him and Him alone can stand in full confidence of God’s forgiveness.  And here is what the promise is, that you are guaranteed full access to return to perfect unity by simply believing in Christ and in Christ alone.

My Future; Faith, Hope, Love

Hello everyone, with the year 2011 here there are many things on my mind that keep me up late at night that I’d like to talk about.

First, I believe that every man has his own defining moment somewhere in his life.  For me, it has been partly the last two years of my life.  I have completely transformed myself into a person that I love being.  I left the old me in high school and truly humbled myself.  I have more than a satisfying amount of friends, but more importantly are the quality of friends I have.  I take pride in all my accomplishments because it showcases the quality of people that I treasure in my heart.  More than anything though, I have learned to Forgive & Love people.  I have developed a genuine, everlasting Love with God.  And He is the source of everything that I am and who I will become.  Before I knew him, I was nothing.  Now, I’m on the edge of becoming the person who I have always envisioned myself to be.  But we’ll save me and my relationship with God for a little later in this blog.  Additionally, this year will be my defining moment.  Being accepted to UCLA would be a childhood dream come true.  Along with that I’d be accepted to UCSD, Berkeley, and UCI.  All are terrific schools but so far my school of choice is in this order; UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley, UCI.  I know Berkeley is the “best” school out of these according to whoever makes the rankings, but it has never been about that for me.  Picking the right school isn’t about the money you’ll make after you leave it, or the lifestyle, but about your own personal Love for it. I absolutely Love everything about UCLA.  Yes, even their football team.  Love is something that I deeply cherish.  It is a word, just like morals, and values that this world has totally forgotten about.  I believe that Love is the greatest gift we have to give anyone, or anything.  Because God is Love, and Love is God.  ”And the only things that will last when you die are Faith, Hope, and Love.  But the greatest of these is Love.” -Corinthians 13:13

Secondly,  I am extremely excited to see what is to come with my life when I do embark on whatever journey God leads me too.  I lose sleep every night thinking about what schools I will get into and how I’ll change even more when I’m attending that certain university.  My passion to succeed and will to become the best I can be in every aspect of my life is something that has been a very strong characteristic of mine for the past two years.  I pray every night that the fire in me never burns out.  That the fire to become successful and to keep God in perspective and learn and Love Him never leaves me.  God has done terrific things in my life in just one year.  I’ve grown tremendously because of Him.  He has blessed me with amazing friends, family, and a phenomenal church which I never had before in my life.  Never again will I lose sight of Him no matter how bad things in this world may get.  No matter how hard things may get.  For anyone that ever feels alone in their life, take comfort in this.  God never said, life would be easy, but He did say you would never walk through life alone.  He is a good God that loves you no matter how great your sins are.  I myself, am a broken man, a sinner, but I take refuge in God because he is my stronghold, my strength and confidence.  He is my shelter in whom I run to when sins of pride, lust, and anything else gets the best of me.  Instead of shunning him away, I’m like a little child that is lost searching to find himself back into his Father’s arms.

Lastly, I worry a lot about so many things in this world.  About so many people, my family, friends, even ex-girlfriends and enemies.  I even reach out to ex-girlfriends to make sure that they’re doing okay.  I don’t think I have enemies but if I do, I pray for you every night.  This world is heading in a terrible direction.  You see it everywhere, people are losing sight about what is ultimately important in life.  Divorce rates have never been higher, which shows the lack of Love there is in this world.  The world leaders especially in America are as corrupt as ever.  We are exactly on course with the Roman Empire and how they collapsed.  Morals & values are sadly insignificant anymore.  Sorry this is depressing stuff but it’s the truth.  Our fundamental foundations of which this country was built upon are in complete disarray.  We are a species made up of sin, regardless; I still give hope to man.  For within us all is that goodness buried deep in us.  The same goodness that links us to God because out of that goodness, comes Love.  I hope and pray for the courage of men to never fail.  The courage to do the right thing, to love even their greatest enemy as they love themselves.  I know that we all come from different parts of the world, speak different languages, and even look different from one another, but together my brothers and sisters, our hearts beat as one.

- Christopher Ghareebo

Hope & Strength.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone else who wants to see how much adversity you can overcome. True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort to achieve what many think is impossible for you to accomplish. For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

From Rock Bottom to Making Dreams Happen

Wooo Hoo! First tumblr blog, I feel like starting this out with a very meaningful story about my life.  So lets begin shall we?

What a year it has been for me.  Before I started my college journey, I was the typical “cool guy” from high school.  Never studied, thought I was too good, thought I was something greater than I was.  Foolish to say the least.  After graduating from high school I hit Rock Bottom, realizing that if I wanted to become who I wanted to be in life, it would require a massive change to everything I was.  I did not know the type of person I wanted to be, I just knew I had to dig deep and figure out who I truly was.  Months past, and my grades suffered at Fullerton College in my first semester because I was still searching as to whom I wanted to become in life.  I struggled all throughout my first semester in college, feeling empty, like a major part of me was missing.  I finished my first semester at Fullerton College with a 3.2 GPA which would definitely not allow me to be accepted to my dream school UCLA.  Something had to change, I needed to find myself in what felt like a “now or never” situation.

The Turning Point was deciding to put my absolute faith in God to help me find out who I was.  The answers came quickly as I needed to make up for a terrible first semester in Fullerton College.  Hope came in the way of Love.  After feeling like I had no one to rely on, all my friends & family became a HUGE aspect of my life.  I was always extremely busy, helping them and them helping me.  Than, the first sign that I knew things were taking a turn for the better was when I desperately needed a Math Statistics class to keep my dreams of Ucla alive, and out of 30 people, I was the only person who got added to the class.  That’s when I knew that God was working through me.  My faith, hope, and Love for him was seen and He responded.  After that I followed up with the first 4.0 semester of my life, giving me a 3.75 GPA.  My dream for being accepted to Ucla was now more than alive.

During my Spring Semester at Fullerton College, I realized that everything I went through made me who I was becoming.  I became a man.  A man who wants nothing else but becoming the best he can be in every aspect of his life.  From Loving someone, to school, to friendships, to being a Great Christian.  I am very inspired and motivated to be all these wonderful things and more; I know it will take time, but if there is anything we have on Earth it is time.  Slowly I am becoming who I’ve only dreamt of becoming… actually I am slowly beginning to see myself becoming who God intended me to be.  A genuine, Loving, faithful, caring, and above all Humble person.  Of course I have my moments of  sin and moments of carelessness, but in those moments in which I used to turn away from God thinking he was disappointed in me; in those moments now, I am running back into His arms.  Asking for forgiveness and repenting.

The reason why I’m telling this story about my life is because of how God will always be there for you, even when your back is facing him.  My message to you is to keep the faith because when it seems like the whole world is against you, our Father will always be there for you.  In the Bible God could have described Himself as God is almighty, or powerful, or forgiving.  But God did not, He decided to be simply described as “God is Love”.  Love. Love. Love. The most powerful gift He has blessed us with is Love because of how much He Loves us.  That is why Love is the greatest gift we could ever give to one another.   

 “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” - Corinthians 13:4:7

This past year has taught me to be Humble, Grateful, and Loving.  I am a completely changed person and I absolutely love it.  I will make my dreams happen and I will strive and persevere to become the best I can be in every aspect of my life.

“With God, Anything Is Possible!” - Matthew 27:57:61