"If You Begin To Trust In God....Your New Heart Will Have Already Begun To Beat"

              Everyone born into this world is lost. You may very well have trouble with that. It's quite natural if you do. Providing that you can set it aside for now....I'll continue. Every redeemed believer in Jesus Christ in this world has eternal life. That might be easier for you to take. Considering the two futures....one of sorrow....and the other of joy....something must have happened to have changed course. Salvation is what this is called. There would have had to have been a moment in time when that change occured. That's simply logical. We would agree on that would we not?
              So....if you believe that right now you are headed to eternal life....when did that change occur? Take all the time that you need. Was it in your teens....or as a child....or one of the many decades of adult life? You see....you may be able to accept the premise that you will go to.....heaven....but you cannot explain anything about it at all. You do not really want to think about this too much because you are satisfied with the outcome as it stands...but you know that if you think about it too much....you may lose that confidence.
             Would you ever consider taking all of your hard earned money out of the bank....and going to Vegas.....and putting it all on the tables? I know that you wouldn't....but what you do not realize is that you are placing your eternal soul on the gambling table. You do not know anything for sure....so you have no choice but to put your soul on the black....or on the red. This is a gamble....is it not? Take your time....but how can you say anything else but that it is a gamble. You are taking that chance....with eternity....and not only with your own eternal soul.....but with those of whom you love....your spouse....your children. Now you really do not want to talk about this.....but you are still here....so I will go on.
             Here are some clues for you. The lost soul is a dead soul....not just sick....but dead. It must come alive. How does this happen? Please remember....unless one accepts that they are lost....they will have no need to be found. There can be no concept of salvation unless one believes that there is something to be saved from. 
             You may believe that you are a pretty good person.....therefore if there is a salvation to be had....you would have it.....but still the question remains....when did this change occur? At what point of your being a pretty good person did God say....'you are now saved.'? Everyone has some good works. Some have a lifetime of them. Where would the salvation have kicked in?
             God has told us in His Word to us....that this is not how it works. He says that faith in Jesus Christ is what saves. OK....now there is a 'when'....for there was a time when one did not have that faith.....and there is a time where one does have that faith.
              So....if you can accept that....and you are confident that you have eternal life....when did that happen. I'm not inquiring about the date. I don't know my own date....but I know that there was a time when my new heart began to beat....and my soul became alive. I know this because before it would have happened....I could not make hide nor hair of the Bible....I was not overwhelmed with what Jesus had done for me....I did not even know for sure that He was God....and I didn't even know for sure that there was a heaven or a hell. Everything was guesswork! I now know. None of it is guesswork....and I want to tell everyone....and have wanted to tell everyone for forty years.
               If you are indeed....saved....do you find that you want to tell everyone of how they must also be saved? If not....why not? Does God's Word leap off the page to you? If not....why doesn't it? Does the majesty and the glory of Jesus Christ fill your soul with joy? 
              It may be that you cannot readily see these things because that point in time....when the new heart began to beat....has not yet occured. There is at this time....no new creation....as God's Word describes it. As difficult as these questions are....the answers come easy to the mind with the regenerated heart. You may not believe me....but there are multitudes of others throughout the ages.....who would tell you the same thing!
              Throw the gambling dice away. Trust.....not in me....but in God....and you know what....if you begin to trust in God....your new heart will have already begun to beat....you will be given faith....and your soul will become alive....for you will have become....born again....and you will soon sit there wondering....as we all do....'how do I tell of this great salvation to those who are lost?'