I had no clue what had happened to me that day in September many years ago when I invited Christ into my life. A change began taking place within me that I was not imagining but could neither fathom nor explain. All I knew to do was to go back to the people who had led me into this new experience. I figured that’s where the answers were. I was right. And I realized this morning that I have been with “those people” ever since. Not with the same individuals, but with God’s people who are all over the world. A peculiar people. Aliens and strangers on earth who are also citizens of heaven. People whose lives have been changed not by force of will or personal discipline or by the tenets of religion or the values of a political party, but by Jesus Christ Himself. People who, though they remain flawed and imperfect, are also His new creations.
I had become one of them.
Forty-five years later, I remain one of them. And though I understand so much more than I did back then, the experience of getting to know Him remains largely inexplicable and unfathomable. I do know this: a personal relationship with Christ is a hidden thing that is activated by a simple “Yes! I need You, Jesus,” and it is as real as it is fascinating.
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