And then, like out of nowhere …
it
wasn’t really a voice, but I guess that would be the best way to
describe it; from somewhere, but just kind of out of nowhere … came
these words – “Christ died for your sins.”
And listen, having been raised in a Christian home … I must have heard
that phrase a thousand times. But right then, all of the sudden,
I got it. That God is a holy God, and that my sin had separated me from
Him. And that those sins needed to be judged. And
that Jesus, God’s Son, in His great love for me, went to the cross, and
took upon Himself the punishment that I deserved, so that I could be
reconciled back to God.
And from that moment, I’ve had this insatiable hunger for more of God
in my life. I bought a Bible and just couldn’t put it down.
I started going to church, where not too much later, I found myself up
on the platform, singing and worshiping. And here we are today …
over thirty years later.
So what’s different … now that I have this Jesus? Well, I’ll
tell you. My whole heart.
My mind is
different. The
way I live my life is
different. And it’s not that now I’ve got
to live by some new set of standards; that I’ve got this checklist of
things that I have to do now if I’m ever going to make it into
heaven.
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