Mayte

Hi, this is my testimony. I have just been with God for 3 years. I always knew he was there, but just did not care about him. I never went to church or said bad words and things like that, but the main thing I did was read BL, which, if you don't know, is Boys Love, which I know many people are reading.

At first, it started with YouTube Gacha Life, and then it went to comics and things like that. Thankfully, it never went to 18+ material because I would have been a kid reading that kind of stuff. I would spend entire days reading this stuff; it gave me a sort of rush when I did.

But, thankfully, the Lord sent a video of a preacher speaking the word of god. So, I started to watch those videos more. That helped me start to see how reading BL made me feel. Then, it came to a point where reading BL and things like that didn't give me the same rush anymore.

In the Bible, John 4:13-14 states, "There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man, which cannot be satisfied by any created thing, but only by God the Creator, made known through Jesus Christ." 

For a long time, I felt empty. I started to stop trying to fill the vacuum little by little at first, with just reading some comics to later deleting the app entirely. Also, when I was on YouTube, I would click “not interested” on certain videos and topics.

I can't lie and say that it wasn't hard - I fell back many times. But I can see how I feel better now, and I can realize how sad I was when I was reading BL. I’m so thankful that I chose to go with him because if I didn't, who knows what my little brain would have done next.