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Why didn't God give up on me? I've wondered about Why didn't God give up on me?

I've wondered about that. 
I gave Him every reason to.

I ignored Him.
I ran from Him.
I chose my own way over and over again.

Yet every time I should have been beyond His reach, His patience was still reaching for me.

The older I get, the more I realize that God's patience isn't weakness.

It's love.

He's not quick to throw people away.

He's slow to anger, giving us opportunity after opportunity to turn back to Him.

"The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love." - Psalm 103:8

When I read that verse, I see my life.

If God had treated me the way I deserved, my story would have ended a long time ago.

BUT GOD.

His patience outlasted my rebellion.

His mercy was greater than my failures.

And that's why I can stand here today telling you that no one is too far gone.

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God never gave up on me. When I look back at my l God never gave up on me.

When I look back at my life, I see years of running, resisting, and making one bad decision after another.

If I had been God, I probably would have written me off.

But He didn't.

The Bible says, "The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise... Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." - 2 Peter 3:9

That's the kind of mercy that leaves me in awe.

God wasn't waiting for me to get my act together.

He was patiently pursuing me, even when I didn't know He was there.

Looking back now, I can see His fingerprints all over my story. Every time I should have been finished, His mercy gave me another opportunity to turn toward Him.

His mercy may be giving you one more opportunity to come home.

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There are some verses that still leave me shaking There are some verses that still leave me shaking my head in amazement.

This is one of them:

"God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God." - 2 Corinthians 5:21

Think about that for a minute.

For years, I believed God looked at me through the lens of my past—my crime, my addiction, my failures.

But the Gospel says something completely different.

Because I'm in Christ, God doesn't deal with me according to who I used to be.

He sees me through His Son.

Jesus lived the perfect life I never could.

He took the punishment I deserved.

And now, by grace, I'm credited with His righteousness.

That doesn't mean I pretend I've never sinned.

It means my standing before God isn't based on my performance anymore—it's based on Christ's.

That's almost too incredible to believe.

BUT GOD.

The Judge of all the earth doesn't accept me because I finally got my life together.

He accepts me because Jesus got it right for me.

That's the Gospel.

That's amazing grace.

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One of the greatest lies I believed was that my pa One of the greatest lies I believed was that my past would always define me.

I thought I'd always be the Mafia guy.
The addict.
The convict.
The man who made too many mistakes.

Then I met Jesus.

The Bible doesn't say He makes us a better version of ourselves.

It says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come." - 2 Corinthians 5:17

Think about that.

God didn't just clean up my past.

He gave me a new identity.

I'm no longer defined by what I did.

I'm defined by what Christ has done.

That doesn't erase my story, it redeems it.

Now the same past that once filled me with shame has become a testimony of God's grace.

If you're in Christ, stop introducing yourself by your failures.

You're not who you were.

You're who God says you are.

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One phrase in Scripture still stops me in my track One phrase in Scripture still stops me in my tracks every time I read it:

"But God, being rich in mercy...", Ephesians 2:4

Rich in mercy.

Not limited in mercy. Not running low on mercy. Not careful with mercy.

Rich in mercy.

When I look back on my life, that's the only way to explain it.

I wasn't just a guy who made a few mistakes. I spent years running from God, chasing the world, hurting people, and destroying myself.

Yet every step of the way, God's mercy was greater than my mess.

Think about that.

God saw everything I had done... and still pursued me.

He saw the prison cell.
He saw the addiction.
He saw the shame.

And His mercy never ran out.

The more I understand who I was, the more amazed I am by who He is.

That's what leaves me in awe.

Not that I found God.

But that a God rich in mercy never stopped coming after me.

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I've learned something over the years: Gratitude I've learned something over the years:

Gratitude is my weapon.

Not because life has been easy. It hasn't.

I've buried people I love. I've lived through addiction, prison, regret, and consequences from choices I wish I could take back.

But when I stop and look at where I should have ended up compared to where God has brought me, gratitude rises up in my heart.

I should be dead.

I should still be lost.

I should still be in bondage.

BUT GOD.

God has been faithful.

Faithful when I was running from Him.
Faithful when I hit rock bottom.
Faithful when I didn't deserve another chance.
Faithful when I couldn't see what He was doing.

Gratitude doesn't ignore the hard things in life.

It remembers the goodness of God in the middle of them.

And that's why gratitude has become one of my greatest weapons. It reminds me that if God has been faithful before, He'll be faithful again.

"Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever." - Psalm 107:1

Your past isn't wasted, it's a weapon.

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For years, I thought something was wrong with me b For years, I thought something was wrong with me because I was never satisfied.

I chased respect. I chased money. I chased the streets. I chased drugs. Every time I got the thing I thought would finally make me happy, I found myself wanting something else.

I couldn't figure it out.

Then I came across Ecclesiastes 3:11:

"He has also set eternity in the human heart."

That verse changed my perspective.

I realized I wasn't empty because I was broken. I was restless because God had placed eternity inside of me.

That ache in my soul wasn't a curse.

It was evidence.

Evidence that I was created for something more than this world could offer.

I wasn't really looking for money, power, or drugs. I was searching for something eternal. I just didn't know His name was Jesus.

Maybe that's where you are today.

You've achieved things. You've chased things. You've tried to fill that void with something the world promised would satisfy.

But it never lasts.

Why?

Because eternity can only be filled by the One who put it there.

BUT GOD.

The very thing that made me restless became the evidence that God never intended this world to satisfy me.

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Growing up, I chased, a among many things: respec Growing up,  I chased, a among many things: respect.

I thought power, money, and reputation would give it to me.

Instead, drugs took everything I thought I had built.

The same streets that once respected me watched me fall apart. Addiction stripped away my pride and exposed the emptiness in my heart.

And here's what I've learned:

Only God can change a heart.

I wasn't looking for God.

I wasn't searching for a Bible or a church.

I was running hard in the opposite direction.

But He sure found me.

The truth is, He was always there.

He was there in my rebellion.
He was there in my addiction.
He was there in my prison cell.
He was there when I hit rock bottom.

I didn't find God.

I finally surrendered to the God who had been pursuing me all along.

BUT GOD.

"I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you." - Ezekiel 36:26

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