There I was in my miry clay, broken and frustrated. I kept doing the same thing over and over again.
I was walking comfortably through the shadow of death heading towards my own destruction.
Unfortunately I hit my foot on a stone and fell flat to my face... Just then I realized I was very close to my doom... I mean my death... *but not for the stone!
I was so lost in my sin and blinded by lust that I didn't even notice how close I was to destruction...
Why did I hit my foot and who must have kept the stone there?
All the questions that clouded my mind had just one answer, and that one answer kept ringing in my head; 'I would've been dead if the stone never interrupted'.
As I looked closely at the stone, I realized that the stone wasn't a thing as i thought... The stone was a personality. And he wasn't there by chance but was divinely arranged so I might be saved from death.
The stone is the same Ancient Stone that is otherwise called the chief corner stone. He's the Ancient Rock that has always shown up when it seem all hope was lost!
Yes! That's the stone that interrupted my life and am grateful that he did.
I began to ask myself... What if he never interrupted my life?
Maybe I would've been dead by now. Or Maybe I would've been a professional in masturbating, stealing, gossiping, fornicating, adultery, aborting, and what have you?!?
Did you just say "so you were a bad boy!!!" Hmmmm! Maybe you're right... Guess I was a bad boy that's why Jesus came for me.
You see beloved! I wasn't enjoying what I was doing, yet I couldn't stop myself. Every night I would wet my pillow crying over a particular thing only to find myself doing the same thing the next morning.
No doubt i was really on my way to destruction! You may think I was stupid but you see the truth is that as strong as I claimed to be... like Sampson I had no powers of my own to stop myself... But am grateful that someone greater than I interrupted my life!
It's a pity how many times he came knocking at the door of my heart...only to find out that I was occupied with the same thing that made me cry every night! It's a pity how many times he came looking for me only to discover that the boy he just cleaned up had fallen back to the mud... Surprisingly, as dirty as I was, he still picked me up, drew me close to himself, gave me a warm embrace, washed me clean, and restored my life, my joy, my peace, my happiness, and every other thing I lost.
Maybe you're wondering how many things I lost while in my miry clay... Well! One thing is sure; Jesus gave it all back to me, not the way it was, but he gave me in abundance.
He looked at me and told me HIS LOVE FOR ME HAS NOT GROWN COLD AND WILL NEVER DO!
Those words brought comfort to my heart such that I had never experienced. He promised he will always be there for me. He said so many things that words can't explain that's because his love for me is simply unexplainable!
So I bowed my face and knelt at the foot of the cross... And tears flowed uncontrollably from the innermost part of me. Then I said amidst my tears;
"I surrender all to you Jesus...
Everything I give to you...
Withholding nothing..."
Its true I may have said those words a thousand times to him... But this time, I meant it! I can't go back... I wont't go back to the way it used to be before his presence came and changed me.
Right now am forever indebted to the one who interrupted my life. The one who gave me a future and a reason to live... Right now, my past doesn't count anymore, cause I've been changed forever!
Jesus didn't just make me clean outwardly, he went as far as cleaning my conscience!
So right now I can confidently say I AM A NEW CREATURE... I'M A CHANGED PERSON!
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This is to you my beloved reader;
Are you tired of living life the way you do...? I've got goodnews for you: "ALLOW JESUS TAKE CHARGE OVER YOUR LIFE TODAY... I PROMISE YOU WON'T REGRET IT!"
