Before I was 18, if you’d asked me if I was a Christian, I’d have said yes, of course. Wasn’t everyone? Growing up in the Bible belt in Mississippi, I didn’t know many people who would have admitted to not being Christians.
But the truth was that though I had a faint idea that there was Something or Someone out there, I figured all the religions were basically the same, and if I’d grown up somewhere else, I could have just as easily been some other religion.
The other fact was that a couple of times I’d had an impression that the Someone I thought might be there was real and that He wanted me to commit my life completely to Him. And I felt certain that if I were a true Christian, I would be really that committed, 100% faithful, like in marriage, for the rest of my life in everything I thought, said, and did. That was a big commitment, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to make it.
The day I finally made the decision to completely surrender my life to Him, I didn’t fully understand what He had done for me. He’d planted seeds of Truth over the years that had taken root in my heart and mind.
And He sprinkled those seeds with enough water to convince me that He loved me with a never-letting-go-always-faithful-from-eternity-to-eternity kind of love.
I love the video below and how it succinctly explains what a Christian is.