LISTEN ONLINE“I’d had enough. . . . I was definitely planning on throwing myself into the [River] Don,” recalled Steve from Rotherham. Desperate, he prayed to God for help. A few days later he met Ali, a church worker, who invited him to a group to discuss questions of faith and life. Steve attended, and changed radically: “Jesus has made a big difference to my life. . . . I know God is helping me. I can feel his presence every day. . . . To be clean off [drugs], it’s all to do with God.”
Steve believed the promises of God, confessing that Jesus is His Son, who died for him. He was saved, as the apostle Paul wrote to the Romans: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9). With Paul, Steve would affirm that the freeing message of Jesus was now “in [his] mouth and in [his] heart” (v. 8). Changed by the love of God, his hope was real.
We may have been believers in Jesus for decades, or we may be currently wondering about this Man, the Son of God. Wherever we are in our journey of faith, we can trust that if we believe, God will free us from our sins and make things right between Him and us.