Jeffrey Ellis The good father: a revelation of our heavenly father who loves us and cares for us, paperback/jeffrey e. ellis

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By the time I was 38, my life was in shambles.

When I came to myself (see Luke 15), I had been drunk for sixteen years and addicted for longer than that.

I was divorced, broke, jobless, homeless, living 1, 100 miles away from my children, and totally alone.

I had ruined every relationship in my life.

Every dream I had was broken.

I was discouraged, depressed, and ashamed.

I was a mess.

Then someone came into my life and told me that God loved me and had a plan for my life.

I needed both of those.

So, on a beach in Maine in the middle of February 1995, I knelt down and asked Jesus to forgive me of my sins and to be the Lord of my life.

It didn't seem like a life-changing moment at the time.

I didn't know exactly what to do next, so I opened an old Bible and read the page I had opened.

Luke 18: 18 said to leave everything behind and come to follow Jesus.

So, I did.

From that moment on, everything began to change.