That is terrific! Thanks for posting it. I was wondering though, when you were walking in darkness, and you saw someone calling your lifestyle 'yuck', would that have driven you away? I'm not trying to stir things up, I am just curious. God bless!
I would have been very defensive brother, in fact I hated Christians and God to the point where I wanted to see every believer on a cross, dying in agony...sadly...it was because of the intensity of the pain I had inside my soul...the emptiness that was consuming my life day by day, and in Romans it tells you why:
ROmans 6:
20. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
(A freedom I was fighting for day in and day out, to the peril of my soul)
Romans 8:
5. For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, 7.
because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, 8. and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 1:
21.For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30slanderers,
haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
And so I began to hate those who had Christ in them...God's Spirit dwelling in them...and anything they had to say about my lifestyle, was only more reason to hate. My entire being had been swollen with bitterness and anger. I was completely godless. And like Robo says....who would want a child in THAT kind of atmosphere? It's not about two people not being able to provide for a child....lots of moral people can do that.....but it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to raise that child in a Godly manner..when by their very nature, they are haters of the ONE TRUE GOD, and His Son...my Lord, Christ Jesus.
Sry for the lengthy answer bro...lol....but I'm very certain God did not rescue me from this hell for nothing...and I get kinda passionate about truth when it comes to people being lead astray on the topic.