My Story - Part 4
I have been journaling about the ways in which God has worked in my life to bring me closer to Him. I will digress a little to the story of how I was saved. Most of us who are believers can look back to milestones that led to our salvation, even before we knew we needed Him. Certainly we can see the influences that brought us to Him, both positive and negative.
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The realization that we are sinners is the first real shocker that we have to deal with. Then we find that sinners are exactly who Jesus came to earth to save. He actually gave His life for us - but He didn't stay dead! Someone has told us these truths either in a Sunday School class, Good News Club or just in conversations about God.
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I first responded to the message of the gospel in a revival meeting when I was nine years old. I was old enough to know that I had a decision to make - and I wanted to receive Jesus as my personal Savior. I already loved all that I had heard about Him. I was like one of those little children in the picture book who came to Jesus and then experienced having Him put His arms around them, saying, "Let the little children come unto me and forbid them not - because of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."
Have you received Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour? What is your story?
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The Bible says that God loved us so much that He gave His only begotton Son to pay the price for all of our sin, even before we knew or cared about Him.
Our sin has separated us from fellowship with Him, but we are told that "as many as received Him He gave the right to become the sons (and daughters) of God."
My choice to receive Him came very early in life, but other people have made that choice as teenagers or adults - even as really old people.
The actual Scripture I referred to is:
John 1:10-13
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
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