Saved by the Light

I’m a 48 year old divorced man. I have two wonderful children which I see on the weekends and the Lord Jesus Christ is first in my life, but it always hasn’t been that way. I was raised in a Methodist Church. We attended service every Sunday and I was active in our youth group. I would get on fire for God after a youth group retreat, but I would slowly drift away upon returning.

When I was eighteen, I joined the Navy and spent the next six years seeing the world. I was about as far away from God as anyone can get. I did every kind of drug imaginable, slept with as many women as possible, stole, lied, cheated and drank till I was drunk every day. When I got out of the Navy I got married and cleaned my life up. I had two beautiful children, quite doing drugs and was a faithful husband, but I didn’t have God in my life.

After eighteen years of marriage, I found out my wife was having an affair. When I confronted her, she refused to quit the affair and said she wanted a divorce. Shortly after that, I was sent out of town on work for the next year. I was glad to get away, plus it gave me a place to stay, since the ex-wife took the house. I had kept in touch with Sammy, a close friend of mine from home. We called each other almost daily to talk since we were both divorced and lived alone. Sammy started going to church and getting all religious on me. I didn’t want that. I was living on my own for the first time in eighteen years and it was party time. Sammy would talk about things that happened at church and I would talk about things that happened in the bar. Sammy would go to church on Wednesday night and I would go play poker. I had read the Bible when I was growing up and thought I was well informed on the subject of Christianity. We would get in arguments over his beliefs. I had convinced myself that all Christians where hypocrites and I didn’t want Sammy becoming one or being controlled by a bunch of them.

I began reading the Bible, so as to better arm myself with weapons to shoot holes in Sammy’s beliefs. As I read, it became clear to me Sammy was right most of the time and I was wrong. Something else happened as well. I began to feel God calling me back to him. The more I read the more I could feel a tugging at my heart. I wanted to get close to God, but did not want to go back to the same boring religion I grew up with. I began researching all the different religions; Buddhism, Hindu, Muslim, Christian Scientist, Scientology, Mormon and a list of others. Finally I came across the Unity School of Christianity. I thought this was great. Here is a religion that is easy to follow. No real rules. No real sin. No real evil and it’s all about me, me, me. No need to give to the needy. The best thing we could do for the needy was to be an example of success. After abo

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