ephesians
I will not be ashamed to share with you how my life was before I accepted Jesus as my Lord and savior. It was dark. Very dark and bleak. There was no hope. It felt like I was in a trap and needed to be rescued. Someone else was operating my life. Someone dictated what I watched on TV and someone operated my mind of what I was going to become. And I was a slave to that someone. Well, reading Ephesians I understand now who that someone is. It is the spirit of disobedience. Also the lusts of my flesh lured me and held me in bondage. My eyes were blinded. I did not understand God's word, the bible, even if I read it. But one day I decided that I am not going to walk this way. I cried out to Jesus for help. I screamed to God to help me. God in His mercy rescued me. He made to taste His love for me. He picked me up from the trap. He delivered my soul from sin. His grace made sure that I didn't go back to the old sinful lifestyle. Ephesians 1 says that when God rescued us from sin...