UnderatedRAGS

My name is Hector Mora, I am married to Carol L. Mora, I am the Owner of a little clothing line called Underated Rags, this is my life thanks to the Lord. This might seem long but it seems as though I cant tell you where I'm going if I havent told you where I've been. So if you have known me since High School, you probably already know that I am married. Yes I married the beautiful, blue eyed, God Loving Woman named Carol Leanne Lewellen. I could say that without her I would be incomplete, both spiritually, and physically. Spiritually because she was the one praying for me to know Jesus, and she was the one who put my hand in His hand. Physically, because as in Genesis, God saw that it wasn't good for man to be alone, and as he provided Eve for Adam, He provided Carol for me. Although Carol has only given me the fruit from the Tree of Life(Gen. 2:9), I had made it a point in my "B.C." days to eat from the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil"(Gen.2:17). What I'm trying to say is that I was a wretched sinner. The Lust of the Eyes, the Lust of the Flesh, and the Pride of life was my agenda. Being a glutton to the flesh I began to reap to the flesh. I was taking and adding to all that i needed from people, justifying my selfish wants and needs. Addicted to the physical needs of my lustful mind, the pressures of exceding social status, and indulging in substances uncontrollably. it was a state of mind I wanted to keep. I wanted to please my parents with Financial success, I wanted to please my current "girlfriend" with an unreal lifestyle, and I wanted to experience life without limits. I do not boast in my sin, at all, but what I do boast in, is the Man whom has saved me from the personal destruction of my own soul. I had lied my way through life, stole from my own parents, took advantage of them, and gave my sisters the worst example they could have as an older brother. Now, it is the hardest thing to live with, to know that your parents think its weird for you to go to "Christian Church" every Sunday, and help the church faithfully for "free", and ignore the fact that you are a new creation. Some of my friends and family members thought I was going to a cult, because I would go to three services a week with my girlfriend. Some friends thought I was being fake, since I thought it was cool to put off the armor of God and go do the things I used to do. From Lies and Addiction, to Selfish Hypocracy, I knew It had to come to a stop. As Bob Dylan said,"you gotta serve somebody, it might be God or it might be the Devil, but you gotta serve somebody." I hate hypocracy because I was a slave to it, and now all I have to show for it, is that my God has released the chains I was enslaved too. I know that aint much coming from an ex-liar, but what I do know is that my life has changed astronomically. My zeal for the Lord has become my portion. I need not to lean on my own understanding anymore, and I know who created me and what I was created for. The thoughts He has for me are more than the sands of the sea. He knows the hairs on my head, and He will never leave me as an orphan. The calling that He has given me is far more attractive than any multi-million dollar career I could have obtained through wordly connections. The still small voice that I hear every morning, is far more louder than all the times I cursed Him put together. Each and every time He is faithful to provide a miracle, magnifies all the times that I counted Him absent. The love He has given me for my wife is so huge, its as equal to the hate I have for disappointing her in anyway. What Im trying to say is that he has loved me with an everlasting love. A Love that never fails. Rom 5:18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.19 For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. 20 The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, 21 so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We know that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. We know that there is none righteous, no not one. But the good news is still awaiting to be heard. The fact that the Lord is willing that none should perish, but that all should come to repentance. That God so loved the world, He gave His Only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Most importantly, that God Showed His love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, He died for us. Come and see, him whom our transgressions have pierced. Be set free from the slavery of condemnation. We are more than conquerors, and nothing shall prevail against any Promise He has proclaimed through His Word. I am not here to watch any of us Christians live a complacent life. I am here to pronounce an awakening amongst those who proclaim Him with their mouth and not their Heart. Im calling out the Youth to Step Up and Stand for your Beliefs. You Christian that has slumbered way too long, Awaken and hear the Words of the Faithful and Just One whom is willing to use you as an instrument in the song of salvation for many. Though His Word is all I have, I believe its all I need.