Today I'm going to give you my story of what I have been trough and what I have been able to over come. Lets start back to when I was in High school ,I was a simple kid just trying to find the "cool" people to hang out with because we all are under the impression at that age the if you went cool you were considered a big fat loser. Finding those friends often means trouble,I found me a dozy, the kids I stared to hang out with introduced me to many ungodly things( I want to remind you that I was a believer back then,just a very weak one) these kids introduced me to smoking,porn,raves,and some of the common drugs like marijuana and mushrooms. If you want to be part of the "cool" people you need to do what they did(mind you this what is called pure pressure) and if you did not want to do what they did you may as well been in the "loser" camp because not only are you now a wuss but your also going to be picked on for the entire school year and possibly make enemies down the road too, so me being stupid I followed with the program of the "cool" kids and did those things that tore me away from God and my Parents and family.
Fast Forward to my adult life, I graduated High School ( don't know how I did too) and I did have a small turn around in my life I did come back to God and I was able to drop allot of my friends from school, I was not involved in drugs anymore because those were the friends I kicked out of my life, all though I still was addicted to smoking to were it should have been the alternative to any drug, that's how addicted I was to smoking. I got a few jobs as I got older,mainly worked at Forest Home and left and hot another job,left them and then I was back with Forest Home, this pattern went on about 4 times all the way up until present day. In 2008 I was at Forest Home and I was still highly addicted to smoking, so when ever I got a break I would have to leave campus (they did not allow smoking on campus) to go have one of my beloved smoke, well I had a street bike at the time and I had to go the other direction to have my Cig due to the terrain in the area I had to go down the street and I ended up getting in a near deadly motorcycle accident. I did however survive,I could have lost a leg,the doctors saved it and I was close to being dead due to the injury to the leg. Since my recovery I have been redeemed and have seen what the Lord was doing in my life,I may be disabled from this accident but my life has been taken out of the disability of the smoking habit,witch was taking me down the road of death anyway,just don't know were I would spend enternity,but since this life changing accident I know God has a plan for me,and I know were I will spend enetrnity at.
Dear Phillip,
ReplyDeleteGod has such an unending love for you and it has been demonstrated by how He was right there all along to receive you whenever you chose to turn to Him. I like the way He lets us come to our own conclusions. We are not robots who can't choose. We get to choose Him freely. I'm so glad you are trusting Him with your life!