All his life, Lecrae Moore wanted to feel a sense of significance. Growing up in a single parent home without a father, whom he never met, and a mother who was constantly working, he wrestled to find a sense of worth whether through his rapping or other activities.
To him, being a “well-manicured, good, all around student and person” was not going to help him find what he was looking for. So he chose a life of criminal and gang activity, drugs, theft, and alcohol instead.
“The people I looked up to were gangsters,” he described on the site. “I wanted to be doing criminal activity so I kept rebelling and I kept doing worse.”
But pretty soon after he was arrested for stealing in high school and put on a gang list, he wondered, “What am I doing with my life?” He felt like he didn’t fit anywhere and was just a “misfit of a person.”
As time passed on, he began feeling emptier, filling the void with more drugs and more women. Moore knew he was in a really dark place and he wasn’t sure how to get out of it.
When he was 19 years old, he was invited to attend a Christian conference by a friend. Though he was more excited about going to a big city and meeting girls, what he found was what he had been looking for all of his life.
During the conference, rappers also spoke about God in a way that he had never heard before. Moore had no idea who the God behind the lyrics were. Then when a speaker got up and asked, “Do you know you have been bought with a price?” he began to find what he was looking for – significance.
Having spent a long time searching for a father figure to replace his own, the now 32-year-old artist shared that God ultimately showed him thereafter that he was his father.
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