Denise S.

I was raised in non practicing Catholic home, though I made my communion and confirmation I had no idea that I was spiritually separated from God. In all honesty, I thought the Catholics were the only ones going to heaven. It wasn’t until middle school a classmate took me to church with her that I first heard the term Born Again.

I didn’t understand it so I pushed it aside. But GOD didn’t give up. Many years later the term was brought up again by an acquaintance who explained a little more clearly. But again I moved on.

Finally in my 30’s a wonderful elderly lady took a few of us under her wing and explained salvation in more detail. And I accepted Jesus Christ and went from darkness to light.

What I really want to share is I never experienced drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse but I was still lost, still separated from God. Had I died I would have still gone to hell. But I had no idea. Being born of a women I was spiritually dead, separated from God. It’s not about what you did or didn’t do. It’s about the state we are born into spiritually. We have been bought back through his shed blood and it has to be recognized and received to be appropriated. I thank God that though it took many years he brought people into my life till I understood and accepted.