Purpose for Pain

It's funny how God takes the lowest times in our lives and turns it around to help others who are at the same exact low points.

Today, the mother of one of my best friends from high school called me crying because she had no one to talk to0 about her son who is addicted to herion and who just got arrested.

I was in the same exact situtation on Febuary 10, 2002 when I was arrested. That was the last day I did drugs in my life. Instead of going to prison for what I did my dad got me into Teen Challenge which is a Christian Drug and Alcohol Rehab and today I am doing a Dual Masters Degree Program at Gordon-Conwell Theoloical to prepare to start a church.

Now that I have been to the gutters God can use me to help those who are stuck there. Its funny how every calls me when they are introuble with drugs. God has set it up that all I have to do is make one phone call and on the spot I can get somebody into rehab.

God has purpose for our pain. He can turn our misery into our ministry. I am not ashamed for my past, but am excited to see how God will continue to use it.