From Drug Abuse to Surrender: My 30-Year Walk with Jesus

● I used to be a drug abuser and a hooligan when I was younger● Then God reveled Himself to me through a series of events over several years● When I finally surrendered to God (after several years of resistance), I just knew that I knew that I was saved. Before I really struggled with doubt and unbelief, even after I started to call myself a Cristian – actually I felt like the worst hypocrite in the world, until the day I surrendered. Then I just knew – If I get a piano in my head today, I will go straight to Heaven. That´s a fact! I grew up in a family with several Christians, so I got many opportunities to hear the Gospel already from Sunday school when I was a little child. I My teens I got in trouble doing drugs and had a destructive lifestyle. My old aunt shared the Gospel for me when I was about 20 years of age, and God broke through in the most powerful way, and demonstrated His might in a way that was impossible to rationalize away from my conscience. After that, I just knew I had met God, and I tried to live My life as a Christian, but failed largely because I had no real conversion. Three years later I came to Christ, through a desperate longing after seeking God unsuccessfully for a very long time. When I finally broke through and got born again, I just knew I had to get baptized, and shortly after I was filled with the Holy Spirit. My life hasn’t been the same ever since. It hasn´t been an easy ride, but I wouldn´t go back to where I was under any circumstance. Now I belong to Jesus, and all I have belong to Him. All of us are created with the same purpose – to Glorify God. That´s why so many are so miserable, because they don´t find true purpose in life. Everyone struggles with the same problem. We are created with a empty space inside of us, with every one of us tries to fill up with something, it can be work, games, spirituality, drugs, travels, sex, addictions and more, but the more you get of the wrong stuff, the more empty you get inside of you. All the false idols in the world cannot fill up the gap created inside of you by our true creator, God and His son Jesus Christ. The moment you repent and turn your will over to God, that same moment your empty space gets filled up, and you will never ever experience the same anywhere else. That’s what being born again is all about. It's a new beginning, and it's a true deliverance of a new person who is now a new creation in Christ. Today I am a devoted Christian. I got saved almost 30 years ago, and 15 of them I was “sleeping”, and almost lost my faith. But in 2016-18 I started to wake up, and now I see God is fulfilling many of the promises He gave me during the very first years as a believer in Christ. I am a missionary and a Christian business man and my life have never been more fulfilling. Its harder work than ever, but I would not change it for all the riches in the world. Jesus is my life, and I will follow