Bible Text: Psalm 107:13-14 | Speaker: Darlene Sala | Series: Encouraging Words |

By her own admission, she was a prostitute, a lesbian, an alcoholic, a striptease dancer, and a gambler. But that’s not all. She had been in prison now for a year on a murder charge. Only 24 years old, she was a single mom with two kids.

She wrote me from prison to tell me that four months previously Jesus had picked her up and turned her around and given her a new life—a new beginning. When she thought she was finished, God saw an opportunity to give her what she needed, and now, she writes, “I am so happy to be alive in Jesus Christ.”

While she was in prison, someone sent her a copy of my book Created for a Purpose. She read it and then wrote to say that she now knows God has a unique purpose for her life.

My eyes filled with tears of joy when I read her letter. What a miracle God had done in her life! Just when she was at the end of her rope—utterly helpless—Jesus came into her life and changed everything. When she wrote, she was awaiting a court date to determine when she would be released from prison.

This young woman is a glowing example of Psalm 107, which says, “Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains” (Psalm 107:13-14).

Maybe you too are at the end of your rope. You’re feeling that you’ve blown it—that you’ve gone too far for God ever to make something of your life. Dear friend, that simply is not true. Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch lady who survived the horrors of Ravensbruck concentration camp, used to say, “There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” God can change your life, if you will turn to Him with all your heart.