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I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior in 1983. I was in jail, and was delivered from the drugs and alcohol that enabled me to do time. The day I got out I got drunk and loaded and recreated the same crime that put me in jail. This time I did not get caught.

Having had repented, and allowing the Word of God to work in my life when I was in jail, I was closer to God than anytime up to that point in my life. How could I have turned my back on God and go back to the trashy life I lived before?

As a Christian I was in and out of treatment, jail, and relationships. In 1998 once again I was scraping the bottom of my life. I went to treatment for the 7th time and made a committment to myself, that I would start each day with self-examination, prayer, reading the Word of God, and going to meetings (AA is what works for me in preparing me to not take that first drink or drug). Reading the Bible daily has become possibly the most important part of my day. When I skip it, the day seems lacking in the necessary spiritual feeding.

You can't seperate God and God's Word..........you want to get closer to God? Daily spend time in His Word.