HE SAVED A WRETCH LIKE ME

I WAS WRETCHED, FOUL, FILTHY, FULL OF HATE AND SELF PITY.
I WAS A LIAR, A THIEF AND WHOREMONGER.
I WAS ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA AND PORNOGRAPHY.
FOR 30 YEARS I EXISTED; TRYING TO FIND HAPPINESS, SATISFACTION
IN MY ACTIVITIES. THOSE MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS WERE BRIEF, MERELY
DISTRACTIONS FROM THE TRUTH...
THE TRUTH WAS THAT I WAS BORN IN SIN, SHAPED IN INIQUITY.
THE THINGS THAT I WAS DOING WERE IN MY NATURE............BUT I WAS
UNHAPPY, ASHAMED, MISERABLE. I HATED MYSELF. HOW COULD THAT BE?
HOW COULD I CHANGE THIS NATURE? HOW COULD I ESCAPE?
THIS CONDITION THAT I WAS IN WAS NOT MEANT TO BE. BECAUSE OF
SOMEONE ELSES' SIN (ADAMS), I WAS CONDENMED TO THIS MISERABLE FATE,
DESTINED TO DIE AND SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL, SEPARATED FROM THE GOD
WHO CREATED ME.
THEN A MAN NAMED JESUS WAS BORN TO A VIRGIN, A WOMAN NAMED MARY.
JESUS WAS MORE THAN A MAN HOWEVER; HE WAS FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT
OF GOD.
HE WAS SENT TO UNDO WHAT ADAM DID. GOD SENT JESUS TO LIFT THE
DEATH SENTENCE THAT I WAS UNDER, AND THROUGH HIM MY WRETCHED
NATURE COULD BE CHANGED.
JESUS DIED ON THAT CROSS AT CALVERY TO PAY THAT PENALTY (FOR ME)
AND ROSE AGAIN TO LIFE SO THAT I MAY LIVE THROUGH HIM AND BECAUSE
OF HIM.....
ALL I HAD TO DO WAS CONFESS MY SINS TO HIM AND ASK HIM TO COME INTO
MY HEART AND HE DID.
NOW, EVERY DAY I'M LEARNING TO BE MORE LIKE HIM; SHEDDING THE OLD
NATURE BIT BY BIT,DAY BY DAY.
I GIVE PRAISE, THANKS AND GLORY TO THE LORD FOR 10 YEARS OF
SOBRIETY AND CELIBACY.

                                                                            RONALD J LAMB