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This is in response to a very hurtful comment to “My Testimony“ [you can read it if you’d like. It’s on 3 pages above]. If you would like to read the comment itself,  I copied it into the “comment” section of this post. It’s under my name [author’s name is to remain anonymous] and posted on 1-13-13. The comment has the title:

THIS IS THE COMMENT TO “MY TESTIMONY’ THAT I RESPONDED TO IN THIS POST

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I’m alcoholic. Very alcoholic. A “fifth-of-hard-liquor-a-day at 25 years old” type of alcoholic.

And I was in a horrendous place when I first met Jesus.

I was sober two years but was seeing the bottle loom large in front of me again and I knew that drinking was sure to come in short order if something didn’t happen to stop it.

But I was in an emotional vice grip. In so much stress and pressure I thought my head was going to pop off at any second. It’s like I was living in a filthy, dirty shack – emotionally, mentally, spiritually…. I was filthy dirty, living in a filthy, dirty, shack.

All I want to say in this post is that, it doesn’t matter how shabby the shack you live in is; how much it is in disarray; how untidy it is; how much of a wreck it is; how dirty it is. This is not about your Aunt Dottie or Uncle Dave. ……….. this is Jesus.

Don’t wait.

Don’t wait until you are ready to pray the formal prayer that you’re supposed to pray when you invite Jesus into your shack. He will come.

Don’t keep your door mostly closed in fear that He will be disgusted with, or judgmental of, how you present yourself. He doesn’t care how you invite Him in. Take my word for it. He won’t mind – at all.

I know this from experience. He will love you – for exactly who and what you are.

My shack was just about as disgusting as it could be when I invited Him into it. And I was just about as disgusting as I could be too. And I had the manners of a baboon.

But I needed help. I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew I needed a great deal of help.

So I flung my door open for Him to come into my shack. I didn’t say the “sinner’s prayer”. I was too messed up to say the sinners prayer. I didn’t even know that there was a sinners prayer. So I asked Him to come in, in the only way I knew how.

And that was ok.

And He came in.

And you know what? All He did was hug me and tell me how glad He was to be invited in.

How do I know this is Jesus, and not some satanic demon? I know satanic demons. I lived in a house full of them when I was growing up. They’re horrible, and their only delight is to see you suffer; so that you’ll throw negativity around this planet so everyone else will suffer too.

But Jesus is different. Very slowly; gently; kindly; lovingly; patiently; He’s helping me turn my dirty little shack into a beautiful, loving home. One in which I try to invite as many other shack-dwellers into as will come.

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Those who have read some of my posts will attest to the fact that I am overcoming. In the power of God through Jesus Christ, I am truly overcoming.

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