Are You Tired

I am wondering if you are tired of the way that you are living?  Would you like to be set free of guilt and shame and much, much more?  Possibly you are an alcoholic or a drug addict or into a multitude of other things that may be weighing you down and you don’t know how to be set free.  You would love to be set free of whatever has a grip on you, but you feel that there is no hope.  I am here to tell you that there is hope, if you really want to be set free and are serious about it.  

I was an alcoholic and a pill popping fool and a marijuana user.  I had a very bad temper and was a party animal with all that goes on in that scene.  I was what I considered a total freak, riding chopper motorcycles, smashing things when I was angry and hard to get along with, with a hatred in my heart and a no care attitude.  Mostly a loner with some questionable friends and acquaintances.  I was in two marriages that should have never happened and never would have if I didn’t choose the lifestyle that I did.  They both ended up with my wives leaving because they couldn’t put up with the freak I had become.

Then about forty-two years ago I married another girl I had met in a bar also, still pretty much the freak, throwing things and smashing things and having temper tantrums like usual still partying and being obnoxious at times.  Then something seemed to be happening to me and I started thinking of spiritual things. I had a couple experiences with the Lord prior to this that never went far because I fell back into my old lifestyle, not being serious enough, not truly repenting which I am totally ashamed of to this day.  

I am totally convinced if I had been totally sincere years before this experience things would have turned out so much different.  I would have saved myself and others so much grief and pain and misery, which I am so sorry for.  Here I was years later thinking about spiritual things, that I think now was the Holy Spirit convicting me of my sins.  I was being drawn to the Savior by God the Father, and not long after, I committed my life to the Lord.  I praise the Lord He hadn’t given up on me, and it wasn’t long when I was delivered from my old lifestyle, drinking, smoking, drugs plus other things, for over forty years now, praise the Lord!!

I have the best wife in the world for me, who gave her life to the Lord not long after my experience and with my wife and I and the Lord in our marriage we have a super marriage.  If the Lord hadn’t intervened, I have a strong feeling that I would have died long ago and I can’t thank Him enough for his grace, love, mercy and forgiveness which I truly didn’t deserve, in fact none of us deserve, because we are all sinners in need of his grace, love, mercy and forgiveness.  But here is good news, He didn’t come to call the righteous but the sinners to repentance.

How do I know that God loves all of us, glad you asked, please read John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”                     
 

Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, went to the cross on Calvary’s hill and purposely gave up his life and shed his blood for all, and if we will truly repent, turn from our wicked ways and turn to Him and ask Him to forgive us and be our Lord and Savior, He will and we will become God’s child, praise his holy name.  If you want to be set free and you are serious, it can happen.  Believe me, I am nothing special, if it can happen to me it can happen to you!!  Just taste and see that the Lord is good, seek Him while He may be found, don’t put it off.  I prayed that this would be a blessing and help and encouragement.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may all of you have a super day!!