Pressing On
This verse was my graduating verse from Teen Challenge in 2002 when I finished the program. Sadly, I went back out into the world and returned to my vomit of drug addiction and alcoholism. God has been dealing with me (sometimes severely) over the past few years because of my rebellion. On August 27th of this year, I tried to take my own life in a desperate moment of weakness and shame. God saved me...in more ways than one. He not only spared my life, but delivered me from the desire to use alcohol or drugs ever again. Whatever lessons I was to learn through my selfish journey through addiction and alcoholism, God saw fit to end that chapter of my life in a hospital room on August 28, 2009. I am free now.
Even so, I have by no means finished the race. If anything, the race has just begun. After all the years of supposedly following the Lord, now I get to see what it's really like. I can hardly wait. I'm sure there will be times that I'll want to give up, but I hope and pray that God will give me the strength to persevere and become worthy of the new life He's given me. I am pressing on toward the goal.
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