He Could Have Let Me Drown

God's amazing love is transforming my life. Each day is an opportunity to get closer to God, through studying His Word, sending up heart-prayers, and allowing God's love to permeate and radiate in me.

I have been "in church" ever since I can remember. Attendance at Sunday School and morning worship was an absolute when I was growing up. However, allowing the Word of God to penetrate my heart to make me a "new creature" in Christ Jesus did not happen until well into my adult life. I knew the Bible was God's standard for living, but I chose the parts that resonated with me and that allowed me to think I was "all right."

It took some very painful events to bring me to the realization that I needed to trade in my religion and begin to build a true relationship with God. Those events caused me to cry out to God in a way I had never done before. I was forced to "look in the mirror" and see who I really was. The tears were bitter, the pain was real, and my road to true redemption was laid in each moment of loneliness. I had to face who I really was in order to become who God wanted me to be. It has not been an "over night" process. In fact, the process will continue all the days of my life. By God's Grace, I now understand that God's Way is the only way to live...period.

He could have let me drown in my self-righteousness and "secret" sin. But instead, Love lifted me!

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