If you were to ask people who know me now, they would probably have a lot of good things to say about me.

I have been a Christian now for 15 years. But my life before than was one that was full of depression, lonliness, lies, stealing, pre-marital sex, alcohol, drugs and the list goes on.

I grew up in a home that did not attend church, nor while I was growing up did I ever hear God or Jesus mentioned. But I do remember as a little boy (before my Mom remarried) going to church with my Grandma and attending children's Sunday School and also one summer at Vacation Bible School Camp. I have two distinct memories. One of making crafts at VBS and the other was learning a little song called "Jesus Loves Me" in Sunday School. The seeds of God's love were planted in me. But from a little boy to a young adult, my life was nothing but problems and heartache.

In 1985, I was sharing an apartment with a guy, and I had a very close friend named Jerry that lived in the same apartment complex. We had grown up together on the same street.

One day, my friend Jerry (who had only been a Christian for a short time himself and has since gone home to be with the Lord) asked me to go to church with him on Sunday. I quickly changed the subject, and he didn't say anything more about it. But every week, he would ask me about going to church with him. Slowly I started thinking about how miserable I was and how long I had been searching for something to fill that overwhelming void in my life. So I told Jerry that I would go to church with him.

Well, from that day on, the Lord began speaking to my heart, as if He were saying, "Steve, I've been here all along. I'm the answer you have been searching for". Well, I went to church about three Sundays, but on the fourth Sunday, for some reason, Jerry wasn't feeling up to going to church that morning. But I really wanted to go. So that morning I went by myself. After the preacher gave his sermon, he gave an altar call. It was like he was directly speaking to me. He asked if anyone wanted to know Jesus Christ personally, and that no matter what we had done in our past, Jesus paid the price for our sins by His death on the Cross -- we would be totally forgiven of all our sins in our past, and that He would make all things new. I thought to myself, "A new life, a second chance". Right then it became so clear that this was my answer. I could feel His presence and love all around me. I gave my heart and life to Him that day, and my life has never been the same since.

As a young man, I would never have believed that roads of my life would take me to where I am today. Five years after I was saved, the Lord blessed me with the Christian wife He had been preparing me for. We just celebrated our fourteenth wedding anniversary! And in 2001 I was blessed with a wonderful ministry, sharing the good news of Jesus Christ and teaching God's Word. As a friend of mine said to me, "The blessings just keep coming on"! ...and that was over five years ago, and they Still keep coming!

I just want to say that you, too, may be one who has the heaviest of sins in your life, and nothing you do seems to bring you long-term happiness. I can tell you from experience that you will never find what you are looking for apart from knowing Jesus Christ. He is saying to you, as He said to me, "I am all you need." Don't wait or put Him off another day, for the Bible says TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION, tomorrow may be too late. But today you have a choice. Can you afford to wait another day?

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