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Those Whom Jehovah Loves He Disciplines

I was raised in the truth and had good spiritual examples in my family that helped me to set goals at a young age.


I progressed to baptism in my teen years and also started regular pioneering as a teenager. But I started hanging around the wrong crowd (inside the congregation first and then bad association outside) partying, drinking heavily, living a double life.


I knew I couldn’t continue that and stay at home because my parents were still serving Jehovah faithfully, so I decided to move out and go into the world 100 percent because I just wanted to have fun.


Well, with nothing holding me back, the partying and the heavy drinking led to experimenting with drugs and living an immoral lifestyle. The lifestyle in the world was pretty much to work all week and to party on the weekend, and that’s what we did. But I eventually saw that that was just a vicious cycle.


Eventually, things got to the point where I started having money problems—losing work.


I lost my license at one point, lost my apartment, couldn’t pay the rent. And so I knew this was not the way to true happiness, and I was miserable.


I thought back to the time when I was the happiest, and that’s when I was serving Jehovah full-time. And I wanted that back.

So, I poured my heart out to Jehovah in prayer, and I let him know that I wanted to return to him.


I knew from personal experience that if you break a bone, such as your arm, you need help; you need to see a doctor. Only they are qualified to fix it—set the bone right so it can heal.


I knew I had to seek out the elders because they’re trained, spiritual doctors. They know how to use the Scriptures to help you heal.


So, I went to them because I wanted to return to Jehovah. I didn’t even have dress clothes anymore; I had lost all that.


I just went back in jeans and a T-shirt. My parents didn’t even know I was coming, but I showed up at the meeting anyway.


The elders, when I met with them, were so loving and kind and patient.


I’ve learned firsthand that Jehovah’s discipline is for the best.


Yeah, it’s true; it may hurt; it may sting initially. But if we allow ourselves to be molded and trained by it, it’ll always work out for the best.


I’m so glad that I made the decision to return to Jehovah. Jehovah blessed me with the happiness that I longed for and a lot more: privileges of service I never would have imagined.


And I’ve experienced through Jehovah’s discipline his greatest quality—love.


And I’ve never been happier.



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