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Redemption
By Samantha Malcombe
F
ive years ago today I
walked into Mary's Song
lost and without hope.
Daily tasks such as getting up in
the morning had become impossible. I was so weighed down by
the lifestyle of immorality that I
had chosen, I did not think it was
possible that God could ever love
says, “I have blotted our as a
thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud thy sins: return
unto: me; for I have redeemed
thee.” When I look back at my
old life today, I can hardly remember the person I used to be.
It is like watching a bad movie, in
which I know the story line, but
someone else is playing my part. I
have been redeemed, my sin is
no longer my own. My Savior has
“Little did I know really paid the price and I have
become holy as He is holy. It has
He was always
not always been easy, life still
right beside me”
happens, but Christ is the anchor
of my soul. In the times where I
would have reached for the
me; and my anger toward Him
things of the world to sustain me
made Him seem even farther
I reach for Him, or maybe it is He
away. Little did I know He was
that reaches for me. Either way,
always right beside me, and the He walks me through the valley
moment I called out His name He and I praise Him on the mountook everything that the enemy tain. Today I am Student Adminmeant for evil in my life and
istrator, of Mary's Song. I superturned it all around. Isaiah 44:22 vise the cafe and bookstore at
Victory Fellowship Church, and I
attend Bethesda Bible College. I
also teach Celebrate Recovery. As
it says in Ephesians 3:20-21,
“Christ is the
anchor of
my soul”
“Now to Him who is able to do
exceedingly and abundantly
above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that
works in us, to Him be the glory
in the church by Jesus to all generations, forever and ever
Amen. “