Preface: The following post is from August of 2022....with a few minor changes. It is directed to the person who just assumes that they must be a Christian. There is nothing behind that confidence. So I want to challenge them. When....to the best of your knowledge....did this change happen....that you went from being lost.....to being saved?
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 consider yourself to be a Christian....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.Here is some direction for you. The lost soul is a dead soul....(and everyone comes into this world lost)....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 are indeed a Christian....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!
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?'
