All Pride Is Gone

“Then I will teach transgressors Your ways and sinner shall be converted to You.”
(Psalm 51:13)

Once we are truly cleansed of all unrighteousness through the blood of Christ, we are free to now live a life for Him and for others to witness; especially those who are where we have been! We are not saved from a wretched lifestyle to simply hide behind the cross, but to step out into the marvelous light, take up that cross, follow after God’s will for our lives, and allow others in darkness to see what the Lord has done in us!

My desire is to see everyone I meet to come to the saving knowledge of my Savior, Jesus Christ! I want to prevent others from making the same mistakes I have made along the way. If that means living my life as an open book, so be it. All pride is gone.

What right do I have to hide what I have done, after the humiliation Christ went through for me? How in the world will someone pondering divorce know the consequences if I don’t share with him? How will the struggling single father learn to lean on Jesus more than women if I don’t come alongside and walk with him? How will a young man realize how strangling pornographic material can become if I don’t open up my past to him and let Him see how Christ can meet needs of affirmation, companionship, and self-assurance? How will the step-father work through family issues if I keep my struggles bottled up within my own heart? How will the couple hanging on by a thread seek counseling if my wife and I don’t share how much counseling has helped us work through issues of life?

I desire for the Lord to use my life to win others for Christ, to save those slipping (or racing) down the slope to hell as I was in August of 1993. I don’t care what it takes or what embarrassment it may cause me. I’m a fool for Jesus at this point! He was not embarrassed to suffer publicly for me; I will not be embarrassed to allow Him to use me any way He sees fit. I am not ashamed.

“…for the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10)