Now, if we're honest, reading the Bible consistently can be a challenge, but know that it's never

too late to start and we're in this together. Thanks for journeying with us. And here's your host, Emma,

daughter. Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Ezekiel 9 through 12, and I am in the podcast

studio with one of our Watermark students, formerly a high school student.

Now he's heading off to college. It's Ridge Thomas. Hey.

Ridge, it's great to meet you. We literally just met, what, five minutes ago? Yep.

So I'm excited to get to know you a little better. What's God done in your life and then what are you up to today?

Yeah, growing up,

my parents were amazing Christian parents and they would just teach us how to live our lives seeking

God. And I remember I would like go downstairs in the mornings and I'd see my parents doing their

quiet time. So I knew they say what they mean and they also mean what they say. Yeah.

They showed a great example of what true Christ followers look like.

So that was a big thing for me because I knew what it looked like to fully like surrender to God.

But growing up, I was exposed to graphic images at a young age.

So sexual immorality, lust, pride, and laziness has affected me throughout my journey.

So starting in middle school, I struggled with sexual immorality and throughout freshman year as well.

And then sophomore year, I finally brought it to light with my community group, and it kind of changed everything.

And then it became not an addiction anymore and not me being enslaved to that sin.

And it just became a struggle, but a good struggle because I realized, like, this is not what God wants for me.

And God kind of just made his way into my life

and taught me what it was like to truly live for him. So that April of that year, I got baptized

with my cousin Bo. And then that summer I went back to Barnabas and now being more in Christ

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