Student #6 Continued

trouble I got into. After about 8-9 months of this I decided to finally quit and start doing "good" so that I could go home. I professed Christ numerous times, but I never possessed Him in my heart. So therefore there was no real, genuine change in my life. It had just been all a masquerade that I had put on to get what I wanted. There's that deception popping up again. Deep down inside I hated the way I was living and knew I was missing something in my life. I had tried to fill that emptiness with everything, but what I NEEDED to fill it with, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I finally convinced my parents and the staff at the school that I was ready to come home. So on December 28, 2002 I went home. My masquerade only lasted for a short time and instead of just sampling my sin, I decided to jump in with both feet. And just like the Bible says in Matthew 12:43-45 about the man who swept out his house of the evil spirits and didn't fill it with good, so when he came back to his house he brought seven more bad spirits with him. That was me with my sin, it was seven times worse than before I left the first time. Now, I was older and a sophomore in high school. I was attending Eastside Christian School when I had jumped back into my sin. It all started up when I had made "friends" with the wrong crowd. I did anything that would get me accepted and for people to like me. This time I had started running out at nights, going to parties, drinking, and doing drugs at school, work, and at home. I was now more experienced in my deception and covering up my sin. I was a chronic liar and thief at the same time. My