MAKING A DECISION -- PART 2

"Decide" was apparently the word that God wanted me to hear.  Making a decision was a process that I understood and could do when necessary.  I decided on that day to accept Jesus for what He claimed to be, and to ask Him to be a part of my life.  A conscious part of this decision was to suspend those skeptical attitudes that had always prevented any spiritual event from occurring in my life.  I decided to take this small step and to see what would happen.

Although this was the most significant event of my life, I did not experience a sudden revelation or a blinding light.  I did experience the beginning of a new direction in my life as I took the first steps in a slow process of spiritual awakening.  I became intensely interested in scripture and found that it was more and more relevant to me.  I began to seek more knowledge about God as I pursued a relationship with Him through prayer, study, and an effort to lead a Christian life.  This has led to a slow and steady process of spiritual growth.

Through this process, a new sense of God has emerged.  Instead of an abstraction, He has become a personal reality.  I have found it natural to pray and listen.  I have learned to work at discerning His answers to my prayers and at sensing His presence in my life.

-- Larkin Spivey in “God in the Trenches”


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