NO MORE DARKNESS

Unknowingly, this "party girl" bought a one way ticket to Hell, but she saw His Light!

By Linda Holm

   I remember asking Jesus into my life when I was just five years old.  And I remember feeling a great warmth filling me up on the inside, like a huge sun shining in me.  I knew then that Jesus would never leave me alone.

   Upon celebrating my fourteenth birthday, I turned to what they call the party life.  I seemed to put my relationship with Jesus on hold.  I hung around the wrong people and made many regrettable choices.  During this time in my life, the Lord never forgot about me and was trying to draw me back.

    I ignored Jesus and I was still heading down the wrong road when I turned twenty.  One time U took a bad hit of acid (LSD).   Instantly I could feel the presence of evil all over me.  I didn't know it at the time, but drugs opened my mind to Satan.  The acid I had taken that night tried to kill me.  I remember lying down and looking at the clock, willing it to keep going, but it had stopped.  I couldn't figure out why, then I felt myself being whooshed into a black tunnel.

    I was turning farther and farther away from the light.  I was scared -- I mean really scared.  I could not stop the black hole from sucking me farther and farther in.

    I looked around, crying out for help.   All I could see in this dark tunnel was a small dot of light -- and it was getting fainter and fainter.  I looked at the light and I knew it was my only hope.   I knew at that moment that I had to get back to the light!  That was it!  The Light was JESUS!

    I started crying out "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!"

    Slowly at first, then very suddenly... I was being pulled to the light.

    Call it what you want, out of body experience, bad trip -- I know I had died and was on my way to a very scary place.   But, the light, JESUS, saved me.

    When I was back in my body, still lying on my bed, I opened my eyes and heard myself saying, "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus."  All the evil was gone.

    I looked at the clock and time was standing still.  Then all of the sudden, it was ticking again.  Jesus lets us reap the consequences of the choices we make, but He is always there, waiting for us to call out to Him.

   My desires in life are different now.  Now I desire to please the Lord and make my decisions according to His desires.  I can't say all of life has been roses since that day, but I can say this -- I have peace that surpasses all understanding.  Living for Jesus has been a real reason to live.

    I'm in my thirties now and recently the Lord spoke to my husband's heart about helping people that are truly in need.   Presently we are operating the New Life Evangelistic Center Free store in Berryville, Arkansas.  It is so fulfilling to be living what God's Word says.   Living your life the way Jesus instructs us to is the most freeing, joyous and exciting decision a person can make.  God wants us all to be His hands, eyes, voice and heart to a sinful, cold and needy world.