Grand Motel / Myles Ferguson

I grew up in church, knowing what the Bible says, but my life was full of hypocrisy. I knew things like swearing and perverted jokes were wrong, but I justified them by telling myself I was still a “good person”. I read my Bible, I went to church. I knew disobeying my parents was wrong, but I excused it with my knowledge of Scripture. I was enslaved to sexual sin, yet I would tell my friends they would go to hell if Christ was not their Lord.

The truth is, I was headed to the same place.

In my junior year of high school, I was dating a girl that was not a Christian. One night, we were all alone, even though I knew that my parents had told me plenty of times not to place myself in that situation. In this moment of seeking sexual sin (that which the Apostle Paul commands us to flee from), I received a phone call from my dad. “Where are you?” he asked. I told him that I was alone with this girl. He responded by saying, “that’s unwise.” A veil was torn from my eyes and a new breath of life filled my lungs. What am I doing? I thought. I got up and left. Those first steps out of her house were the first steps down a long road of purity, leading to freedom from the sins that I was once enslaved to.

After that night, everything changed. It wasn’t quite like I expected. I still struggled with the same temptations to sin, but I began to experience freedom from my addictions. By the grace of God, I have not turned back to my chains. The main changes were in my relationship with God. He began to speak to me through His word, The Bible. I fell more in love with God. My prayers were frequent and long, because I knew that my Father actually hears me. I grew in a passion for telling people about Christ, because He truly has set me free from my sin and has given me so much joy. 

At the time of writing this, I am 19 years old, and by God’s grace, I have been free from sexual sin for about five months. I know I am young, and I know there will be trials ahead. If you are reading this, please pray for me: that my mind would be renewed daily, and that I would endure to the end with my eyes fixed on Christ.

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All glory to God for what He has done, and what He continues to do.