My Life Oh, just in case if you are trying to figure out that number, it's the number of days I've been upon this earth to date as this was written.

My testimony about my life and how I came to true faith in Christ is this. As a youth, my mother brought me up in the church. She, as well as my great-grandmother instilled Christian values in me at a young age. By the way, I grew up with both parents in a middle class home, so I don't have a rags to riches or pops ran out of me story to tell but keep reading. As I was saying, I grew up in church, sang in the youth choir, the whole nine, but around the age of 15, that was boring to me. Also, I participated in youth leagues in sports, (was an all-star player in baseball), spelling bees, academic competitions. But for some reason, my classmates who grew up in projects and those who grew up in single parent families intrigued me. What intrigued me, I don't know, but as I started to get more adept to the street game and the lifestyle, church became less interesting

Therefore, I began to hang out with "cool" people. The class clown is what I looked at as an honor. The people I was around sold "crack", weapons, etc…. I was so caught up that before I hit high school I was carrying an 3.5 gpa but ending up barely graduating because of skipping classes, being expelled from school for weapons possession and so on and so on. Through those vigorous four years I was coming in a kid with so much potential to a kid with no direction but prison or the grave. Throughout this time I made a lot of enemies. But it wasn't from gang banging because that wasn't me even though I thought it was cool, but I made enemies because of women. The majority of dudes I quarreled with were because of a woman and it escalated to the point where my house was shot up, car shot up, and eventually me being shot later. Dudes were always mad at me because of their women being attracted to me. I did my dirt as well, drive-bys at a restaurant with a large crowd present and so on. (I'm trying to compress this, so bear with me).

After getting my place shot up (again), and graduating from high school, I knew I needed a change. So, I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force to put all this drama behind me and start over again. I joined the Air Force and went from one sin of hating my enemy to fornication, drunkenness and adultery. I took total advantage of being the down south country boy once I arrived in California. I loved this lifestyle and thought when I would return home after being gone for two years that all things were all good. After being back home for 24 hours, little did I know that my potnas, who I used to do my entire dirt with, still had people out to kill us. So, on July 4, 1994, hanging outside of this club with a huge crowd of people, our enemies did a drive by and we all ducked and took cover. Everyone got back up after they drove off, except me. I knew that I had been shot because I tried to get up and couldn't. After the smoke cleared, I was in the hospital for a week and being shot with a 12 gauge shotgun and having abdomen surgery to remove any internal pellets. By the grace of God, I recovered but less than 3 weeks, I was out living in sin again!!

After totaling my car while driving drunk, white collar crimes, selling weed and ecstasy, smoking weed almost every day, all this while I was in the Air Force, one can look back and see the grace of God and why didn't I just get it?

In the summer of 2000, my Air Force career ended and God called me once again and this time I responded with obedience. I've been born again for two years and started to attend City Seminary of Sacramento to continue my education. While I was whiling out in the Air Force, I continued to go to school and received my degree from the Air Force and was certified as a Web Applications Program Developer. I also returned to my first love of music, which I always had as a child and began producing music at first for sin filled rap music, but now I use my gift for God.

I know that God has chosen me from the beginning because everyone that I had beef with or used to roll with is either dead or in prison. EVERYONE. When I go back home, I always check to see if it's true and it is. Not everyone can have 500 chances like I did to turn away from sin and escape judgment. I've seen people die or get locked up for a long time who have done the same things that I got away with and now since I am no longer blind but see, I praise God further for that!!

Readers, especially, the youth, sin is addicting, very addicting, but it's temporary pleasure. Our souls are eternal and it's only two places where they will permanently dwell. Therefore, don't play Russian roulette with God because you'll lose everytime and when your time is up here on earth, there is no coming back, there's no bargaining with God, and your life will be read back to you. My request to you is to come out of your sin and turn your life over to Christ now. Neither one of us can determine neither when we are born nor when we die, so you don't have a say so about departure, but you do about your destination.

"Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it."
Matthew 7:13-14