Introduction: Why Choosing Jesus Is Choosing Me
I need to be honest from the very start: I didn’t write this for you.
This book wasn’t born out of ambition or a desire to inspire the masses. It came from the quiet wrestling of my own soul; tension between who I thought I was, who the world told me I should be, and who Jesus says I am.
Some people say, “Find yourself.”
Jesus said, “Deny yourself” (Luke 9:23).
And somehow, in denying myself, I finally began to discover who I really am.
I’ve walked down a lot of wrong roads, some paved with rebellion, others with religion. I’ve worn masks. I’ve tried to please people. I’ve shrunk to fit into rooms God never called me to enter. And I’ve stood on platforms that were never built on obedience. But all of it, every step, led me to one inescapable truth:
I cannot know who I truly am until I know Him.
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” (Colossians 3:3)
There it is. That verse stopped me in my tracks. My life isn’t mine to define. It’s hidden. And the only way to find it is to find Him.
That’s what Choosing Jesus really means. Not just receiving Him once at an altar, but choosing Him every day. Choosing to let Him define me. Choosing to be led by the Spirit rather than dragged by the flesh. Choosing the Father’s will over the world’s approval. Choosing to walk in truth, even when it breaks the version of myself that I tried to protect.
This isn’t some shallow self-help journey wrapped in a Bible verse. This is about identity through surrender. Not self-discovery, but Spirit-led transformation.
I used to think I had to “find myself” before I could be whole. But the more I tried, the more lost I became. Until I heard the Shepherd’s voice call out in the dark, “Follow Me.”
And when I followed, I didn’t lose myself, I finally found myself.
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
So that’s what this is: my personal choice to walk in Spirit and in truth.
To follow the Father’s will.
To live by the Son’s example.
To rely on the Holy Spirit’s power.
And to do it with raw honesty, not performance. Not just in public, but in the secret place, where only He sees. This is not a manifesto. It’s not a ministry strategy. It’s a personal declaration:
I choose Jesus.
If you want to walk this out with me, step by step, verse by verse, then I welcome you. But if not, I’m walking anyway. Because for me, there’s no turning back. Let’s begin.