A LIFE DESTROYED AND REMADE

A testimony from the booklet “Friend in Jesus”  by David Heritage (A booklet of testimonies from ex-convicts)

TESTIMONEY OF DAVID HERITAGE:

I was born in Cape Town in 1970 and on my birth, I was left in the care of the hospital, as my mother died a few days after my birth and my father could not take care of me. I was adopted within a year of my birth but throughout my life was physically, emotionally and sexually abused. In 1985 I gave my life to God at the Kloof Methodist Church in Durban and tried my best to be a good, faithful Christian. However, in the army during 1990 I moved away from God and from there my life was on a rapid downhill.

I mixed with wrong friends and started yielding to Satan more and more. On the night of the 9th December, 1994 I shot and killed my adoptive parents. I was sentenced in 1996 to 25 years imprisonment where I find myself today.

In October,1996 I gave my life back to God- repenting and accepting Him into my life. Since that day I have not looked back!

I relate my story to that of Jonah. Just as Jonah went his own way, not listening to God, so did I. Just as Jonah, realising that he was wrong crawled back to God in the belly of the fish, so did I in my prison cell. As God heard Jonah and saved him so I believe God heard me and saved me!

Through my study of the book of Jonah I discovered a number of interesting points on backsliding which have been encouraging to me, as someone who did backslide and who found a way back to God.

My wish is that my testimony will serve as encouragement to those of you who have perhaps departed from God. Remember that if God could accept me back the He certainly will take you back! Praise God - how wonderful and gracious He is!

(Costa and I, Marge, were involved with David from the time of the murder of his parents till we left Johannesburg and were overjoyed to hear of his on-going work with ex-convicts. He was faithfully supported through his prison years by a member of the Bryanston Methodist Church)

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