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ife comes with challenges especially in these times of confusion, uncertainties and deception that has created unnecessary hardship and has painted the future with no hope for the believer and our children alike. This regression in life and stagnation has come to be because hope of the future is gone. Christ offers all who trust in Him life. Meaning the world can be going downhill but in Christ the victory is destined, and success and great exploits can be achieved because when everything is dying and Christ comes in, He infuses His life given ability to the situation giving life and a brighter future to the person and situation even in the midst of the darkness of loss.
Jerry has been in and out of rehab for the last two years in his effort to combat his drug and alcohol addiction, which has destroy his life and has cause him to be estrange from his family and fiancé. He equally cannot keep a job and is on a verge of homelessness. Totally abandoned by everyone because of her constant lies and also stealing from family and friends to feed his recurring addiction. He recently on a bus heading to one of his rehab session when he sat by James. They got talking and James invited Jerry to his church. After almost a month on one Sunday morning Jerry showed up to James’s church. And after the sermon the pastor invited anyone who wanted to accept Christ to come forward and accept Christ. Jerry went forward and accepted Christ and went home.
The next day Jerry was invited by his friends who he does drugs for their usual time of usage, and to the surprise of his friends he refused to participate in their behavior. Jerry indicated, he felt uneasy and uninterested in engaging in such behavior and went home. And since then he has totally cut down on using any drugs and as he sat and deliberated about what had happened to him it was after he went to church and accepted the Lord and since then has been this change of behavior towards alcohol and drugs. Realizing what had happened to him, he went back to the church and join the counseling team of the church a program geared towards helping troubling individuals. And since then, has been involved heavily in church. The church was kind enough to employed him and this has giving him a chance to earn some income, and this has change his life completely and has become self-dependent again. During a thanksgiving holiday dinner with the family, everyone was shocked at the change of his life evident by his consistent calm and respectful behavior and will not even taste one drink.
The story above is what Christ can bring to a person life Jerry was as good as dead. But in his hopeless and helpless situation when he encountered the Lord Christ found a way to give him back his life and hope, that all is not lost. Which was evidence in his change life. This is one example of what the Lord can do for any one who put their trust in God and believe that Christ has the power in the present to completely turn their situation around.
The believer should just trust the Lord who they are in relationship with, because he is one who has the ability to do the impossible to the point of what in human sense is considered garbage, dead. Christ can beautify it and make it relent again for useful use. Let the believer continually trust in the love and care of Christ so as to experience this life-giving power of Christ.
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