A very strong Christian worker I was until I fell into the pits of fornication. I was deeply in love with a deceiver. He took all I had including my virginity. I gave him money and gifts as i professed my love sheepishly. Truly, men are pigs!
I never realized the danger I was until I got pregnant. Then my ‘sweetheart’ turned his back. I never saw him again. The shame was great because I was young and had a great reputation in church – I was a counselor to teenagers on youthful lust and premarital sex.
I opt for an abortion that nearly cost me my life. And so, a murderer I became. Haunted by my past, rejected by my family, deserted by friends, I decided to run to God.
I feel hopeless and useless. Giving way to sin like that was surely a stupid thing to do. Does God still love me? Are His plans for my life still intact? I don’t know what to do. Lost emotionally, I yearn for help. Weak spiritually, I thirst for deliverance.
Opened my bible after a long time and my eyes fell on Isaiah 1:18 "Come now and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Is this really true?
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