IAMTHEYVEVO | 7 years ago
Justin Shinn shares his story of Trial & Triumph.
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It was October 3rd, 2008 and I remember hearing the cop knock on my front door. The cop knock has a different sound than any other knock so I knew right away what was happening. I grabbed my drugs and I ran into my moms room, I threw a bag of cocaine into her dresser and then I ran into her bathroom and tried to flush fifty balloons of heroin down the toilet and all of them went down except for one. The door got kicked down, the drug enforcement agents from our county just swarmed my childhood home and they arrested me. I remember looking through my little window in my jail cell just waiting for my mom to come and bail me out because she had always done so in the past. And then I finally saw my mom. And I just felt like “ah, I’m finally free, like she’s gonna bail me out, like she always does.” And then she goes through the door and she’s in handcuffs. The cops found the drugs that I had thrown in her dresser.
And that was, that was my rock bottom. It was just this whole rush of emotions that had come over me. All these emotions that I hadn’t felt in a really really long time because I had been so numb. That was when I could do nothing except for fall onto my knees and pray. You know, on my knees in that fluorescent white holding cell, that God found me. It was the first time I had prayed in like 5 years. Honestly, I felt like i was alive again for the first time in a really long time. I felt in my heart at that moment that that was the moment where my life was gonna change - and did change.
Everyone I was close to had abandoned me. I felt like I was an outcast. But the church brought me in. It was almost like I had never left before. There were many years where I felt completely useless. In church and when my relationship grew again with God, that was when I knew I had purpose. It was the most important thing that I did, was to get back involved and to help serve. You know, if a kid is going through addiction or any kind of thing where they feel like they’re a prisoner, I feel like I can be the one to tell them, like, “Hey, if I can get redeemed, God can do the same thing in your life.” So i feel like it’s kind of my responsibility now to share my story with people. It’s not even my story, it’s God’s story.
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