Redemption

My life has been an interesting one at times. Not a good thing or a bad thing just a thing. I have had more fun than I should have and done things I shouldn’t. I have done things that were borderline against the law and some that flat crossed the line. I have also done things that were morally reprehensible. Those things I am the least proud of. I was in a time in my life where I was farther from God than ever before. Honestly I was at a place where I didn’t think he could see me and I wasn’t looking for him.

While working one day driving from call to call I was just riding kinda zoned out. All of a sudden I am snapped to attention by an object on the side of the road that caught my eye. It wasn’t shiny, it wasn’t big, and it should’ve been passed right by, but it wasn’t. I pulled over and stopped on the side of the road and walked back to see what it was. What I found was a coin about the size of a fifty cent piece. The coin had a cross on one side and on the other side it says “with God all things are possible”.

This coin found me, or I found it, or God put us together when I was farther from him than you could imagine. I was living my life completely in sin. I was not leading my family my wife my kids in the way of the lord. I was a terrible person but God left me on the side of the road that day with that coin in my hand and tears in my eyes. It was just a simple coin but it has carried so much weight in my life. It has changed my outlook, changed my desires, and changed my heart. Have I been perfect no, have I had problems yes, will I continue to struggle my entire life to be more Christ like without a doubt. I will continue to struggle and push forward because if God is willing to use me then I should at least be willing to be used.

No matter how far you think you are from God today you are not out of reach, not out of sight, not out of earshot. God wants to use you to change your life, and the lives of the people around you. We are never too damaged to be loved, or to be used by God to change the world. Join me in changing the world.

I love you.