Darkness

When we see those around us who are not Christian believers, going in all kinds of directions trying to satisfy the hunger for "who knows what," to fill the void that is within them, we often fall into judgment of them. We forget that we were once in that same place.

I remember the night (when I was 39) that Daivid Gross spoke the words, "you must be born again." I had heard that before, but it never registered on me as to what it meant. I guess it wasn't my time yet to understand it. But as he explained it, I sat back in a corner and under my breath, prayed a prayer to surrender my life to Jesus Christ.

I didn't feel anything happen at that moment, but the next day when I was driving to work, I had a totally different set of desires. All I wanted to do was to get to know God (through Jesus) better. I carried my Bible with me all the time and read it every moment that I could find to do so.

Before this experience, I used to be interested in staying busy with almost anything, good or bad, to fill up the emptiness inside. Now I was calm and collected and at peace for the first time in my life. It was as if a blindfold had been taken away and I could see what had been hidden from me.

I kept running into people who used to never want to talk to me and they would say, "there's something different about you." That was an opportunity for me to tell them what had happened in my life. The result was often life changing for them as well.

We who are Christians sometimes find ourselves judging others because of their "unregenerated" actions, let us remember where we used to be, when we didn't have a clue ourselves. Let us instead, pray for God to bring the right person into their lives to introduce them to the only one who can change them and give them eternal life, Jesus Christ. We might find that the right person is us.

Being born again, and filled with God's holy spirit is such a miracle, and yet we can get so used to it that we forget where we came from. God gives us plenty of time to repent and turn to Him for forgiveness and a new direction. We should be the same way to others around us. You can't give someone salvation, each person must desire it with all his heart. Just saying some words doesn't do it, unless they truly mean it from the heart.

God bless!