He Pulled Me Out of the Hole and Made Me Whole

The last 5 years have been the most difficult yet triumphant for me.  Having allowed myself to renounce the lord, running from my family and running from myself, it took me going through "hell" before I realized that God was and still is in the blessing business.

 

I am a homosexual male and I have (as others) made many mistakes in the past.  Following a guy who only used me for sex, I got to a point in my life when I was close to homeless, jobless and had no where to turn to.  I used to sing in a park with a broken 7-11 big gulp cup trying to earn change.  People would approach me and tell me to go to church and give me cards from their churches.  When I was at the lowest of my low, I broke down and reached out to God because He was reaching out to me.  I picked up a Bible at the advice of a homeless guy who befriended me in the park, read and prayed.

 

2 years later my life took a complete 180.  I reunited with my family and got a job.  The Lord pulled me out of that hole and made me whole.  It wasn't too long until I got baptized and decided to enter music ministry at my church.

 

Quite recently my personal issues with being homosexual got out into the open and others within my church had started looking down on me.  I knew that there had to be something in the bible that would help comfort me.  Although my parishioners had forsaken me, God had not.

 

Thank you for your website!  Although I have read the very passages you referenced in your site many times, they didn't take the definitions that they took for me today.  The have touched me in a way to make me realize that I don't have to keep hounding myself for being homosexual.  At some points, I felt that I had to completely separate myself from God because of it.  Right now, I chose to live a celibate life in the name of Christ and that wherever his path leads me I shall follow. 

 

I'm sorry if this e-mail finds you completely awkward, but just know that your words touched a lost Christian who needed a little light on his path the last couple of weeks.  Thank you.