From a young age my parents taught us children the Word of God. The Lord truly blessed me with Bible training from a very young age. However, I went throughout my young days just as lost as the home without the teaching of the Bible.
From the womb, I was blinded to my sin and was running straight towards hell. I loved my sin and my heart was desperately sick (Jeremiah 17:9). Titus chapter three correctly describes my sinfulness: foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending my life in malice, and hateful. These sins played out in all aspects of my life, from friends to family. And most of all, I sinned against a thrice Holy God! But! I love that word. If one reads on in Titus 3 he hears of my great God:
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life (NASB).
This is my story and my song, one day over the summer of 2001 I heard the gospel through regenerated heart and repented of my sins. He truly saved me from the depths of my sin; if he had left me to myself I would have grown up a ‘good church boy’ that would find his soul in eternal torment. To quote a great old hymn “My hope is built on nothing less, than Jesus’ blood and righteousness. I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly trust in Jesus’ Name.” In Christ and Christ Alone do I boast!