Born Again & Heroin Addiction
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2017 3:59 am
My 1st cousin Sky recently died of a heroin overdose. She was 29.
I'm trying to figure out if Sky is in heaven or hell.
Sky was a very beautiful girl. Upper middle class. Went to Christian school. She started running with the wrong crowd. She became a very rebellious teenager & juvenile delinquent . Out of control and sex with boys drugs parties skipping school disobeying parents running away/disappearing getting arrested etc.
Eventually my Aunt and Uncle sent her to a psychiatrist. He prescribed Sky dangerous mind altering psychiatric medications which only exasperated the problem. Along with his hourly billing sessions of course.
Things became so bad that after several more arrests; Sky's parents banished her and filed a restraining order. Sky lived on the streets heavily involved in hardcore drug use during her twenties going rotating from the streets to back home w her parents (it was a "optional" restraining order). She was arrested many times.
When Sky hit rock bottom she met a street minister and gave have her life to Jesus Christ. She stopped using heroin and cleaned up her life. She discussed this transformation on her Facebook page. She attended church. She got a full time job. Her life stabilized. After she was born again Sky put in the require effort into her life and dramatically improved over several months.
Then her dad died. So she relapsed, binged out for months, and died from a Heroin overdose. She was found dead with a needle in her arm at 29.
It's hard to believe the happy little girl I knew ended up this way.
Anyways. This got me thinking. After you give your soul to God/Jesus Christ... how far does "born again" and "saved" take you?
I'm trying to figure out if Sky is in heaven or hell.
Sky was a very beautiful girl. Upper middle class. Went to Christian school. She started running with the wrong crowd. She became a very rebellious teenager & juvenile delinquent . Out of control and sex with boys drugs parties skipping school disobeying parents running away/disappearing getting arrested etc.
Eventually my Aunt and Uncle sent her to a psychiatrist. He prescribed Sky dangerous mind altering psychiatric medications which only exasperated the problem. Along with his hourly billing sessions of course.
Things became so bad that after several more arrests; Sky's parents banished her and filed a restraining order. Sky lived on the streets heavily involved in hardcore drug use during her twenties going rotating from the streets to back home w her parents (it was a "optional" restraining order). She was arrested many times.
When Sky hit rock bottom she met a street minister and gave have her life to Jesus Christ. She stopped using heroin and cleaned up her life. She discussed this transformation on her Facebook page. She attended church. She got a full time job. Her life stabilized. After she was born again Sky put in the require effort into her life and dramatically improved over several months.
Then her dad died. So she relapsed, binged out for months, and died from a Heroin overdose. She was found dead with a needle in her arm at 29.
It's hard to believe the happy little girl I knew ended up this way.
Anyways. This got me thinking. After you give your soul to God/Jesus Christ... how far does "born again" and "saved" take you?