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By Charles Eldredge
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A few years back I hit my own ‘rock bottom’, placing myself in a situation which had me facing the prospect of losing my family due to my actions. When the realization struck me that my wife and son might no longer be a part of my life, I felt true sadness. I was miserable, scared and didn’t know what to do, so I went to several churches in my area looking for someone to talk to. At all the churches I tried, no one was available for me to see, which made my situation worse. Was I such a bad person that even God didn’t want to help me? What hope did I have if that were the case?
Dejected, I decided to talk to my friend J. at work – a Baptist that I now realized God had actually placed in my life. Without going into great detail (pride making me think that I couldn’t make myself look as bad as I felt), I told him about my situation and how I low I felt that even God was ignoring me. Using portions of the scripture, he showed me how that wasn’t true and how Jesus came into the world to save sinners, thieves, and everyone else who needed him, not the people who were already His. According to J., the reason I found no one to talk to was because those churches were not where I should be.
I thanked him for his help, and being the cynic that I am, went home to look up the scriptures he quoted to verify them for myself. When I found that he quoted the passages correctly, I spent a few days thinking about what J. and the Bible said. I realized that for all the years of mocking the faith of people I met, I did need Jesus as my personal Savior, but I was scared. Even with the troubles we were dealing with, I asked my wife to pray with me. She agreed, I hit my knees and cried like a baby as I called out for Jesus to save this filthy sinner and become part of my life.
Since I turned my life over to the Lord I have received many blessings – probably more than I should have – my wife forgave me of my transgressions and we are working on regaining the trust in our marriage, I received a promotion at work, I felt the Lord’s hands stop my truck from running off the road one morning when I blacked out behind the wheel, and I can now see the many blessings I received even before I was saved (but was too ignorant to realize Who was helping me). Even when my wife faced multiple emergency surgeries, I was blessed by the knowledge that it was in God’s hands and according to His perfect plan things would turn out for us – yes, my beautiful wife is still here, praise God! Just as God blessed America, my Savior Jesus has blessed me, using his precious red blood to make my garments white as snow and I am no longer blue.
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