Jesus Turned My Life Around

“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments. “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. You shall labor six days, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you. “You shall not murder. “You shall not commit adultery. “You shall not steal. “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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	Jesus Turned My Life Around

Author: Testimony,
Love One Another! 15/2010 → True Love Waits - Pure Hearts

I would like to tell you how I met God, and how He led me onto the right path.

My parents instilled in me the rules of the Christian faith from a very early age. Every Thursday and Sunday, I dutifully served at Mass as an altar boy. At school I received awards for being an excellent student. Then, in the fifth grade, I got into bad company, and after that I was no longer a well-mannered child or an exemplary student, but a hooligan — a so-called “social outcast.”

When I reached for my first cigarette, I had no idea I would go downhill so quickly. Tobacco soon led to alcohol, glue sniffing, amphetamines, marijuana, acid, ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and so on. To make things worse, there was masturbation. I also had some serious run-ins with the police. In grade ten I was offered the chance to take part in a spiritual retreat, and I took it. I experienced a great act of grace from God. I felt the real, living presence of Jesus. That meeting changed my heart. Above all, Jesus freed me from my addiction to drugs. On returning home, I made a clean break with my old company.

At the next retreat, God took away my addiction to cigarettes, and then my addiction to masturbation. Thanks to Him, my life has turned around 180 degrees, and I am ecstatic about it. What makes me happiest is that God has once again made me His knight, who can serve Him at Holy Mass, only now not as His altar boy, but as His guitarist. Praise God!

Radek, Jesus’ official hooligan

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The above article was published with permission from "Love One Another!" in June 2016.

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