When I was in Year
10, a number of kids in my year talked about going to fellowship and becoming
Christians. I didn’t understand what
they meant. Having gone to Sunday School
till I was 10 years old, I knew this had something to do with church and the
Bible.
It was the conversion
of Graeme Wilson that really made me wonder about it all as the change in his
personality and “orientation” was quite dramatic and I decided that there must
be something in the Christian business worth investigating.
At the time my mother
was “finding herself” and discussing all sorts of philosophies with me, but
most had no ring of truth or evidence, they were just things people wanted to
believe. I started to read the Bible
after going to an evangelistic meeting at the YMCA camp where I worked on the
weekend. I mentioned this to one of
the Christians at school and they invited me to fellowship. There, I was really impressed by the fact that
these people took the Bible seriously. Over
about a year God spoke to me through the Bible, Bible studies, books from the
bookstall and the people I was meeting with.
I can’t remember
when I actually made a commitment as it was a continual unfolding of truth.
I realised I needed forgiveness (though I wasn’t a bad child - even my
mother says this!) because I had ignored God and wanted to run my own life.
The truth that really shocked me was that Satan believed in God, so it
wasn’t enough just to believe, I had to make a commitment to a relationship
with God - just like a marriage.
Every now and again
God’s greatness, compassion, reality, etc. really hits me and I am humbled that
he chose me to be one of his followers. Since I became a Christian two of my brothers and my mother have
also committed their lives to Christ - Hallelujah!!!