Jesus 'Found Me in My Dirt and Pulled Me Out,' Justin Bieber Says
Singer Justin Bieber in a new interview credits his Christian faith for saving him from self-destruction, saying he’s “grateful” to have friends in his life who live for Jesus.
“I was just living in this shame, living in all this sort of stuff in my past and I wasn't able to move on,” he said. “... [Now] the way I look at my relationship with God and with Jesus is I'm not trying to earn God's love by doing good things. God has already loved me for who I am, before I did anything to earn and deserve it. It's a free gift by accepting Jesus and just giving your life to Him.
“And what He did is the gift – the forgiveness is the thing that we look at and, you know, ‘I'm going to worship You, God, because You gave me something so good.’ And so you live that life of like, ‘I don't want to cheat on my wife, not because it's the right thing to do but because I don't want to hurt her.’ See the difference...