Changed

Changed By God my Savior

Looking back at my past, I have realized how much I have changed. I use to be a prideful, arrogant snob when I was younger. I was out right rude to people when I thought they were not good enough to be my friend. My whole idea of what I should be like was distorted. I actually thought I was going to make it to Heaven, when in fact I was the farthest from being able to enter Gods heavenly gates. My idea on how to get to heaven was being a good person, basically someone who didn’t murder someone or commit suicide. How messed up is that.
The truth was to enter heaven you have to humble yourself, acknowledge your sins, become truly sorry for your sins, repent of your sins, take faith in Jesus Christ and approach God through Jesus Christ to be truly saved. This I now know and have known for about 8 years.
One thing I believe is that when you do make the decision to follow Christ you have then decided to begin the process of becoming Christ like. It doesn’t happen overnight, it is something that takes time and prayer. I remember a time when I kept having road rage while driving to work. Every day I decided to pray that God would change my heart and mind to stop me from becoming angry. After a couple days of this process I never had road rage again.
God was slowly changing my attitude and heart, and I am so thankful for his patience. And as I look at what I have now become I notice that the changes in me are closer and closer to the characteristics of Jesus. I know I am not perfect but I know God will help me to get to a point that pleases him. To be perfect I will have to wait for his eminent return to take me to heaven. Because ultimately that is the only time one can become perfect.
Remember God is a loving, patient, kind God. All he wants for his creation is to turn to him and love him back. Some people think he is a mean God telling us what we can and cannot do, but that is not true. He allowed us choice; he does not want any one of us to be cast into Hell. God wants everyone to go to Heaven but it is our choice, Heaven or Hell? Without choice our love for God would not be true love.