“My husband was a drug addict,” says this pretty woman in her early 30’s. I met her at a church gathering a few years ago and now she tells me her story.
She was a working student in college when she got pregnant. She and her boyfriend decided to get married. Her husband was jobless but she really loved him.
With her savings, she opened a store so that her husband could get busy and earn but instead of earning, they got deeper into debt. That time, she would wake up at 4am, work, then go to school and would be home around 1am. One day, she came home unexpectedly and found out that her husband seldom opened the store and he was a drug addict. Worried for her son and her life, too, she decided to leave him.
Two months after they separated, someone invited her to a Christian fellowship and she gave her life to Jesus Christ. She said, “It changed the way I looked at things. It is different when you trust yourself and not God to solve your problems. I knew God but I didn’t have a personal relationship with Him.
I had hopes that my husband would change and that someday, we would live together again but a few months later, I learned that my husband and his mistress had a child. I cried a lot until one night, while I was praying the Lord impressed to me that I should go and tell my husband I forgive him. So I went to see him and told him I forgive him. After I said that, I had peace in my heart.
Eventually, I also got into a relationship twice. I thought I was incomplete and I needed someone to take care of me but I had no peace. The Lord showed me that I was complete in Him and He helped me straighten up my life. Now I know that whatever my situation is, I can depend on God to help me.”
