I try to glorify God simply

I am inspired to write after reading 
the Biblical verse, Isaiah 62:10, 
which, in NIV, reads:

"Pass through, pass through the gates!
    Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!
    Remove the stones.
Raise a banner for the nations."

And, I am encouraged to write, bearing
this Biblical verse (or fragment of a verse) in mind:
"sing a new song to the Lord"

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     we were both in. I don't think I had that much influence over his decision to leave. Maybe my god rescued me. My god is my saviour and my Rock.
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+  <h3>A longer story about God and me
+    </h3>
+  <p>
+  At some point in time between the years 2013 and 2017, I was acutely aware that something was just not quite right with my life.
+    I've felt that way, before 2013, I guess, but it had become something I just could not ignore. I somehow ended up doing the 
+    following:
+    <ul>
+      <li>travelling to Thailand, perhaps hoping that I could escape my problems if I travelled
+      </li>
+      <li>drinking alcoholic beverages
+        
+      </li>
+      <li>sending myself to an institution of psychiatry, which might have been called a sanitarium or asylum, in older days.
+      </li>
+      <li>asking for help from certain members of the staff of the university that I was then enrolled in, as an undergraduate.
+        One particular member of the staff
+        would accuse me of being possessed by "the devil".
+      </li>
+      <li>stealing food from a refridgerator/fridge that was shared among my dormitory-mates, among other fridges
+      </li>
+      </ul>
+    Long story short, I felt better after reading verses from the Bible. Epistles (or letters) by the apostle Paul helped me, in particular.
+    I grew to fear God, in a gradual process. 
+  </p>
+  <p>As I read more about God from the Bible, I discovered, or realised, that 
+    I have done things that God finds abominable. For example, God says in the Old Testament that 
+    "thou shalt not steal (you shall not steal)". (Exodus 20:15). 
+    <p>I asked God to help me be a better person, if only to end my suffering,
+    if only to feel better. It seemed that I could not help myself feel better, no matter how much I tried. I guess it could be said
+    that I tried to repent. I am still trying to repent. 
+  </p>
+      <p>I think God loves me. He is giving me kindness. For example, I have sunshine
+    most of the time (I need sunshine). And God made the sun. Plus, I grew to believe someone, or some being, or an existence other than
+    my own, died in my place. Like, I believe I deserved to be struck dead after doing things that God doesn't like - in other words,
+    I should have died for my sins (including stealing). But someone called Jesus, whom I would later address as Lord Jesus, suffered
+    the punishment for my sins. I believe God is forgiving. I frequently ask God to forgive me. Lord Jesus has said, "Forgive, and you
+    will be forgiven". So I try to forgive others whom I encounter in everyday life. It could be the staff of a restaurant who abruptly
+    cleans the table I'm at, without so much as a smile at me. Lord Jesus taught mankind a prayer that includes the line, "Father in Heaven [...],
+    forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors". So, I ask God to be nice to that particular member of the restaurant-staff
+    who did not smile at me, who seemed so robot-like to me. I do this in the hopes that I myself am forgiven.
+        
+    
+  </p>
+  <p>Long story short, and as a way to summarise the above, I note the following:
+    <ol>
+      <li>I felt distressed, severely so
+      </li>
+      <li>I exhausted all the ways I could find to make myself feel better, without success
+      </li>
+      <li>I came across verses in the Bible. Or, as I now believe, God sent the Bible to me, in His generosity.
+      </li>
+      <li>I asked God for wisdom to understand what I have read in the Bible. (And if I have wisdom now, I believe it was
+        God who gave it to me. And I believe God is still giving wisdom to me, as I write this - consider me a fool!)
+      </li>
+      <li>I acted based on what I read in the Bible.
+      </li>
+      <li>I am happy now. I am in God's care.
+      </li>
+  </ol>
+  </p>
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