| I remember it like it was yesterday…
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| I was a drug addicted youth, a marijuana dealer,
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| A runaway, a rebel.
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| It was the darkest time in my life.
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| But I loved reggae
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| And loved to sing songs about Jehovah (Jah)
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| I was open to the Bible to an extent,
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| But I just didn’t vibe with church
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| And I definitely didn’t like Christians.
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| They seemed so fake
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| With their «happy-happy-joy-joy» songs and their plastic smiles.
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| To be honest, I just didn’t get it.
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| Because I knew what was best for me
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| Or at least I thought I did.
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| Until I met this cool guy named Marcus
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| He was so much like me
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| And we connected as we shared stories about his drug past
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| And my drug present
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| But the more that I got to know him,
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| The more I realized that
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| Though we had so much in common in thepast,
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| Our lives where headed in two entirely different directions.
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| You see mine was a dead-end street,
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| But his had a future and a hope…
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| I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
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| So one day I asked him: «What's the difference between you and I?»
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| I’ll never forget his response…
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| He said four simple words that would
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| forever change the trajectory of my life.
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| The love of God" he replied.
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| He had found what I had been missing!
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| He had received God’s love, His grace, His forgiveness,
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| And he was forever transformed by it.
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| It’s hard to explain but that simple answer
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| Regarding the hope that he had within
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| Literally sparked a revolution within me
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| And just two weeks after truly surrendering my life to Christ,
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| I started Christafari.
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| And I’d never be the same again,
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| Forever changed by the Love of Jah. |