Testimony

God works in mysterious ways, I assure you, I never have thought I’d be as joyful and content as I am here n prison, considering my story and how I got here. I’m an inmate in Pennsylvania serving time for charges from 2009. I am 34 years old and this is my testimony and my way of giving glory to God.

My name is Aaron Love. I grew up without my parents, I lived with my Aunt; my cousin whom I was a victim of sexual molestation. I have been a disturbed person ever since I can remember. I was severely depressed growing up, which ultimately led to drug abuse. I’d been on antidepressants trying to make the pain go away. I felt that Aaron was a bad person. By the time I was in the 7th grade I was smoking cigarettes and even sexually active. I was slowly getting out of control and running with the local out casts. I would do vandalism, robberies and plain disrespect was fun to me. I was out of control, everything that I knew as my life, was gone. The geographical change didn’t cure anything. At age fourteen I was selling my body and by eighteen I was on drugs, I found the local drug dealers. I attracted them for some reason, so I lived in the streets and the streets lived in me.

After a few years of insanity, being on the run from my parole officer thinking this was a game, so at the end of my rope, I gave up. I just couldn’t run another day. I couldn’t smoke another hit, I sat down on one of the corners I usually worked at and I cried. I asked God to help me. What happened next was amazing; my cell phone rang, it was my best friend telling me to come to her house so as I turned the corner, everything in me screamed, “Get Up”! Move! Walk! But I stood there and told myself “this is it.” I stood, held my hands out, I was asked what my name was, and then I heard a voice say this is your lucky day. Needless to say I have not smoked crack since. I had no one out there but one friend. Yet God sent me a lady from my church whom I owe my life too and my obedience to God. Now I have some contact with my friends and my church once again.

On 12-9-09 when I turned myself in; the judge gave me two consecutive five year sentences. I walked out of court with my head down low. I can now say with God in my life on June 6th 2010 I got a letter from my lawyer saying I am now going to do two ½ to five years. At that time my family stopped writing me, has nothing to do with me still to this day. But I will not give up on contacting my family. God has brought me this far in life so I thank Him every day. So I sit here almost two years later waiting to be paroled. I’m so grateful that God has saved me from the streets.

Every day is a good day, although I have to carefully choose my thoughts not to complain no matter how bad I think I have it. One thing I’ve learned in here is you don’t have to be behind a barbed wire or electric fence to be locked up. I am the care free, joyful person I was meant to be in life.

I hope the Lord has revealed something to you using my testimony. There isn’t a day that goes by that God doesn’t remind me that he’s right here with me and He loves me. I believe God is working behind the scenes. Believe with me. One of my favorite verses is Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Also God says; He will not give you more than you can handle.

I hope this testimony has been a blessing to you. If you would like to read how others in similar situations have experienced the life transforming power of God please write to me at the address below. We now have over 35 testimonies of those whose lives have been transformed by God’s amazing Grace. Please send us your testimony as well. We would also like artwork and poetry to use in this ministry.