FROM THE PIT

Monday - March 30, 2020

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“He redeemed my soul from going down to the pit, and I will live to enjoy the light.” – Job 33:28

When he was 16, Bobby Bledsoe found the family he was looking for - in a gang in New Jersey.

“We started selling crack cocaine in some of the projects and some of the apartments and hotels,” he said. “Selling drugs led to trying a little bit of drugs. I got locked up for strong-arm robbery in Philly. I had got to the point that we didn’t care about life. So we would just go around doing strong-arm robbery, robbing purses, robbing people, gang activity - to have money to buy your drugs, to sell your drugs.”

Bobby served every day of a 19-month sentence. When he was released, he went right back to the only life he knew.

Homeless and broke, he called his Christian mother. He asked for one more chance to get his life together.

He went to church with his mother and heard a message that changed his life.

“He said, ‘Is anybody ready for a change? Does anybody want Jesus?’ And I ran to that altar, threw myself at that altar and I said, ‘God, if you’re real, take this addiction from me. God, if you are who you are, please forgive me for my sin.’ Right there and then, like I never felt before, I felt the weight of the world being lifted off my shoulders,” Bobby said. “I felt as if scales came off my eyes. I really felt free, and instantaneously I was delivered from Crack cocaine, Heroin.”

Bobby has never gone back to his old ways.

Today, Bobby is married and has two beautiful children. He serves as a youth pastor and every week he tells young people about Jesus.

The Lord is in the practice of redeeming souls lost in sin and giving them eternal life. Today in prayer, praise the Lord that He found you lost in your sin, that He redeemed you through His precious death on the Cross, and granted you eternal life in Him.

“Redemption never comes by our own efforts. Spiritually, redemption cannot happen without a Redeemer. This word is precious because it reminds followers of Jesus that relationship with Him has been purchased at great cost.” – Bob Snider

“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’” – Galatians 3:13