Zoe Di Bucchianico

My name is Zoe and I am 20 years old.

Since I was a child, I have always believed in the existence of a superior and perfect entity, whom I called God but with whom, however, I had no relationship and from whom I felt very distant.

In truth, I was not approaching Him because I did not know it was possible! I had been taught that God is perfect and holy, and I recognized that I was lacking before Him, but I didn’t know how I could solve this problem, because a solution had never been presented to me.

As I grew up, therefore, I began to try to convince myself that God was not real and to live as if He did not exist, saying a few prayers only at times when I felt particularly sad or needy. I had silenced that voice that urged me to wonder from time to time if there wasn’t something more I needed to know about God.

However, at the age of 15, in the tenth grade, I met a boy in a group of friends: he started talking to me about God, and the story he was telling me did not stop at the sin and inadequacy before a holy God. The story he was telling me spoke of Love, of a Father who sends His only Son to pay the price for the sin of the world, to save mankind. The story He was telling me was about Jesus.

Jesus was the answer. Jesus was the way, the solution that I needed and that would enable me to go before God.

Jesus was what I was looking for.

From that moment I started reading the Bible and understood the importance and depth of Christ’s sacrifice: I gave my life to Him, and my questions and my thousand doubts were answered in His Person.

I accepted the gift of salvation and finally felt the weight of my mistakes, which I did not know how to remedy, fall from my shoulders, and I felt truly free. In Christ I found the Savior, the Lord, the Friend and Shepherd of my life, the One who truly loves me and wants to direct my steps in the right direction.

This is why I walk with Him.