I felt deeply impressed with the phrase, "You've tried everything that you thought would make you happy, but you've never tried me," while I was recovering one morning in my girlfriends kitchen from another night of being obliterated...I knew what it meant.
I went out and bought a cheap Bible that didn't look like a Bible (I didn't want to let anyone know I was reading a Bible) and started reading. I wanted to give it an honest shot so I could say, "I've tried that and it didn't work."
I read Genesis and I discovered that the "starting line up" of God's "heroes" were horrible. I figured if God can use them, I still had a chance. Then I read Romans. When I started the book I was an unbeliever, by the time I had finished it I had given my life to Jesus and told him, "I don't want to stop having sex with my girlfriend, I don't want to stop being a pot head or stop drinking, but if you can use me then my life is yours."
After that moment the Lord began to change my desires so that I no longer wanted to be drunk or high...the "thrills" I used to love paled in comparison to the thrill of loving Jesus.
I wrote about how Jesus satisfies more than other pursuits here - http://morethanmorality.blogspot.com/201...verer.html
I went out and bought a cheap Bible that didn't look like a Bible (I didn't want to let anyone know I was reading a Bible) and started reading. I wanted to give it an honest shot so I could say, "I've tried that and it didn't work."
I read Genesis and I discovered that the "starting line up" of God's "heroes" were horrible. I figured if God can use them, I still had a chance. Then I read Romans. When I started the book I was an unbeliever, by the time I had finished it I had given my life to Jesus and told him, "I don't want to stop having sex with my girlfriend, I don't want to stop being a pot head or stop drinking, but if you can use me then my life is yours."
After that moment the Lord began to change my desires so that I no longer wanted to be drunk or high...the "thrills" I used to love paled in comparison to the thrill of loving Jesus.
I wrote about how Jesus satisfies more than other pursuits here - http://morethanmorality.blogspot.com/201...verer.html
