The Scriptures say that the person who is forgiven much will love much (Luke 7:47) — Katie is just such a person. Before she gave her life to the Messiah, she was a real outlaw — a Bonnie and Clyde type of character.
Katie had gone to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a star and had some early successes in film, television, and commercials. However, as her career started taking off, so did her illegal drug use. She became so heavily involved with drugs that she lost her movie career and descended into dealing drugs for a living.
As a drug dealer, Katie lived an outlaw’s life. She was known as a methamphetamine producer. She routinely stole cars to house her portable meth lab, and running from the police in high-speed car chases was a regular occurrence.
When customers failed to pay her bills, she used guns, theft, and threats of violence to force them to pay. Before she was finally caught, Katie had racked up over a dozen criminal charges.
The Fall
Katie succeeded in eluding the police for many years, but in 1999, she was caught and forced to pay the piper. Leading up to that time, she had gone into the hills in New Mexico to a house that was used for cooking methamphetamine.
This house was drenched with so much meth contamination that the chemical residue on the floor melted her boots. The toxic fumes in the house were very strong, and she began to feel ill.
Just when she realised that she should not be in that place, federal marshals surrounded the house and took Katie into custody; but she was so sick from the meth fumes that they had to take her to a hospital for treatment.
The Divine Intervention
When Katie regained consciousness, she was in a hospital, guarded by a federal marshal. Seeing an opportunity to escape, she hurriedly put on clothes and fled. However, as soon as she got outside the hospital, the Holy Spirit seized her and held her captive.
She describes what happened next:
“I suddenly felt paralysed. I kept trying to propel my body forward but it wouldn’t obey. I went back into the hospital and started walking down the hall directly toward the agent. ‘What am I doing?’ I thought, panic-stricken, but I could not stop myself. Voices in my head now began screaming violently at me to turn back around, but something stronger wouldn’t let me.
Finally, I was standing directly behind my captor, yet neither he nor the nurse seemed aware of my presence. ‘You can still escape!’ the voices said. ‘Turn around, it’s not too late!’
“But instead of fleeing, I reached out my hand and touched the agent on the shoulder — now, I was committed. Startled, he turned around. When he saw me, he instantly paled. I saw pure fear in his eyes as a thousand questions about where I came from invaded his mind. The officer knew something had almost gone wrong, so he quickly put handcuffs on me, and that ended my chance to escape. I was eventually tried, convicted, and sentenced to almost thirteen years in a federal prison …”
TO BE CONTINUED…
Miraculous Monday: 8th January 2024
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