No I am not John Bunyan, although I hope that through God's grace I will end where He did, in heaven. If you have some time I would like to tell you what the Lord has done for me. I think the best would be start the begining.
I was born in a little town called Worcester, the one in South Africa. When I was small I was very fasinated by girls. I liked being around them and in their company. Pretty soon, I was doing more than simply being in their company. I think I was about 4 or 5 when I kissed a girl for the first time. Pretty soon we tried to do the same things our mommies and daddie did. Of course we were to physically too young so it did not quite work.
As time went by I started lying to everybody and living in a fantasy world. Creating a better me or rather the me I wanted to be, but was too lazy to work for. It was not long before I started stealing. I really did not need the things I stole, I just wanted to have them. This was all still in primary school. I never did my homework and were always telling lies to everyone.
In High School it went from bad to worst. I first started smoking to be with the in-croud. Pretty soon I was stealing cigarettes at my Moms work to supply my buddies with cigarettes. After a while I started drinking. With my dad being an accountant for the largest alcohol company in South Africa, we always had plenty of alcohol in the house. From fine wines to strong spiritus.
By the time I finished school I was a full blown alcoholic. I drank whenever I had the time and the money. I flunked out of technikon because of my habbit. Most of the money that I was supposed to pay for my studies went into drinking.
I got agreat job as a fixed assets accountant at a large private hospital group. They kept me there for 7 months, but at the end I lost the job to my drinking problem once again. From there I went from job to job, always runing away. You see I stole their money to support my habbit and did not want to be catched.
This went on for several years and because young people might be reading this I do not want to go deeper into the things I did. But one night as I was drinking with friends in bar my life changed. I felt a fear I have never experienced before and became so convicted of my sin that I shouted it out aloud to everybody else. I thought I was drunk and just imagined everything, but the next morning my friends father said that we should get on our knees and ask God for forgiveness as we becoming alcoholics. Then I knew I needed help, Christian help.
The Lord took me on a path, but today I am saved and free of those bondiges. I never even had withdrawal symtomps or a craving for a drink or cigarettes.
To God be all the glory in heaven and on earth.
I was born in a little town called Worcester, the one in South Africa. When I was small I was very fasinated by girls. I liked being around them and in their company. Pretty soon, I was doing more than simply being in their company. I think I was about 4 or 5 when I kissed a girl for the first time. Pretty soon we tried to do the same things our mommies and daddie did. Of course we were to physically too young so it did not quite work.
As time went by I started lying to everybody and living in a fantasy world. Creating a better me or rather the me I wanted to be, but was too lazy to work for. It was not long before I started stealing. I really did not need the things I stole, I just wanted to have them. This was all still in primary school. I never did my homework and were always telling lies to everyone.
In High School it went from bad to worst. I first started smoking to be with the in-croud. Pretty soon I was stealing cigarettes at my Moms work to supply my buddies with cigarettes. After a while I started drinking. With my dad being an accountant for the largest alcohol company in South Africa, we always had plenty of alcohol in the house. From fine wines to strong spiritus.
By the time I finished school I was a full blown alcoholic. I drank whenever I had the time and the money. I flunked out of technikon because of my habbit. Most of the money that I was supposed to pay for my studies went into drinking.
I got agreat job as a fixed assets accountant at a large private hospital group. They kept me there for 7 months, but at the end I lost the job to my drinking problem once again. From there I went from job to job, always runing away. You see I stole their money to support my habbit and did not want to be catched.
This went on for several years and because young people might be reading this I do not want to go deeper into the things I did. But one night as I was drinking with friends in bar my life changed. I felt a fear I have never experienced before and became so convicted of my sin that I shouted it out aloud to everybody else. I thought I was drunk and just imagined everything, but the next morning my friends father said that we should get on our knees and ask God for forgiveness as we becoming alcoholics. Then I knew I needed help, Christian help.
The Lord took me on a path, but today I am saved and free of those bondiges. I never even had withdrawal symtomps or a craving for a drink or cigarettes.
To God be all the glory in heaven and on earth.
