:smt027 It was more complicated for me. When I was a child I wanted
to be a christian and to know God. It wasn't easy,but I was finally baptised
and the reason it wasn't easy is that I didn't have many good christian -
examples and my parents were divorcing back then.
I was saved at the age of about 14teen,but I gradually started living of the
world for many years.It really took it's toll on my life.
Before I went back to the Lord,I had a vision of Jesus Christ,where he
just reached out to me and my whole room filled with love,the kind that
none of us could ever have or give to anyone,it's a love so pure that we
are not use to such a thing in this world. It's the love of God that brings us
to our knee's crying out to him while we feel the joy of complete and total
forgiveness. It's the forgiveness that we know we don't deserve and once
we know we have it anyway it makes us weep with joy while at the same
time with sadness that we wasted so much time on the things of this world.
Yet,the joy stays with us once we know this love truly does exist.
I have also had other experiences,but this was one that I thought over for
awhile before realizing I had to get real with God and change the way I was living.
My Calling? Thats still being worked out in my life. I believe it's to help
others get turned on to God and his son.
I want Jesus to have what he wants to have,and I want to help him get it.