HOPE
A Devotional by Brian Cole
Greetings in Christ brothers and sisters! Here we are, another issue, and just in these last few months so
much has transpired in the life of my family! For those of you who don’t know me or haven’t been following
my articles in the last couple issues, let me give you a little background. I was born again January 22, 2009
in the county jail, and I was released from the Chippewa Prison June 1, 2010. Up until then, I was known as
Ozzy (Ozzy Knecht). I have spent a total of 27 years behind bars (23 as an adult and four as a juvenile), for
crimes ranging from petty drug charges to first degree aggravated assault with a weapon as a result of
shooting a man. I was a drug addict for over 25 years, the last was a meth addiction which almost took my
life. I was a porn addict, involved in cutting and self-mutilation, and for those of you who knew me, highly
involved in Satanism and the occult. I didn’t even believe Jesus existed, and I thought the Bible was just
another mythology book like all the others I studied.
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