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Well,
now where to begin? I grew up in a good home, my mom and dad split
when I was 5. I stayed with
my mom, who was a caring and good
provider. She instilled solid morals in me and taught me the good things
in life. When I
was 18, I received the Lord Jesus as
savior, and was baptized. The years that follow are where my story
begins.
I drifted from the Lord; I had
never gotten really close to him, as far as being grounded. So I started
to wander further and further away. I
began drinking, and then drinking heavier, which then became an all out
spiral out of
control. My father was an alcoholic,
so I swore I'd never drink. Then after I began drinking, I swore I'd
never
smoke weed, but I did. I never thought I would take any pills to get high, but I was consumed with
the feeling
of being high, I wanted anything and
everything to make me feel that way. When you’re doing drugs and
drinking, it’s
all fun, but it doesn’t stay fun for
long. As I continued my habit, I began needing more and more, and with
that came the need for more money to
buy them. So I started selling everything I had to get more.
Here’s
where it all began to change. I got
into some trouble with the police and to make a long story short, I was
arrested.
As the court dates drug out, I was
sinking lower and lower. I was in my bedroom one night, not at a church,
not at any
official house of God, but at
home, sitting in the floor, when the God spoke to me and lifted my eyes
to the reality of my situation. He said, "Scott, you weren’t
raised to live like this". Right away I knew who it was and what I had
to
do to get out of this PIT! I got up
on my knees and knew when I said these words, I meant them, because it
wouldn’t
have worked any other way. I said,
"Lord, forgive me", and immediately I felt a huge weight lift from my
shoulders, the
weight that Jesus had already bore
for me at the cross, the weight of SIN and the pit of self destruction. I
was FREE!!!
I
haven’t been perfect since
then, I've messed up since then, but God was my DADDY and he didn’t
leave!!
He just said, “Son, why are you
doing this." And my reply was, “I don’t know, I have no reason to".
So I kept on keeping on. We all sin
and fall short of His glory, but He has promised us that He would never
leave
us, or forsake us, but that He will
go to the end of the world with us! So, Fear not and be of good courage,
for HE is
with YOU ALWAYS!!!! AMEN IN JESUS
MIGHTY NAME...........AMEN!!!!!!!!!
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