How I Found Christ Personally

I'd like to share my story of how I came to Christ because it's very interesting. I wasn't raised in a Christian Home although my mother was very loving in terms of human standards. I was never taught anything about the first Bible scripture but my mom tried her best to teach me to honor other people and love my neighbor basically.

I think as a kid I felt somewhat of a connection to God but didn't know it was God. When I was 23 I was at a university and just dropped out of a fraternity on campus. I was very depressed and abusing drugs and had no idea what to do with my life and I had the idea to go to the Christian clubs and groups on campus. I wanted something that was morally good and I knew that Christianity was supposed to be all about what was good so I wanted to check it out because in all honesty my heart was longing for it. I guess that was God tugging at my heart before I knew it was actually him.

So I emailed all the Christian groups on campus, there is about 10 to 15 of them, and I planned on checking them out. One night after my night class, I went out of the classroom building and randomly walked into the student center around 8 or 9 at night which was strange because there was nothing going on in the Student Center, or at least I didn't think so, everything was closed at that time. I had absolutely no reason to go to the student center that night. But I randomly walked into this small room on the bottom floor, the only room that was apoen out of a huge, 4 story building, that had a Christian group doing a little service in there and I noticed a guy that lived in my dorm room building and I said hey man what is this? And he said "oh this is Alpha Omega , a Christian group." And I said "oh I just emailed this group". And then the campus Minister, his name is Jake, immediately came up to me, was very outgoing and friendly, and immediately invited me to lunch the next day as if we were already very close friends. I immediately liked him.

I don't remember exactly how it got started but he started teaching me the Bible like 2 to 3 times a week in the student center or even at my dorm room. He started teaching me about Jesus and of course I had all the atheist arguments like this is all just a fairytale, I believe in science, science doesn't prove the Bible, Etc. But he kept on teaching me kept on teaching me for like 2-3 months without me believing and finally within the span of a month the Holy Spirit slowly came into me and before I knew it I realized that something EXTERNAL came into my body and joined with my spirit, it was the spirit of love, God Spirit, the Holy Spirit.... That was when I believed. That whole month seems like a blur, it was like God put me in a some type of Trance during that month so he could slowly work his Spirit into me. But as soon as the Holy Spirit came in to me I knew I believed in everything the Bible said without even reading all of it, because I had God's spirit of Love Inside Me... that was all the proof I needed. The Bible says something like "The Spirit confirms with our Spirit that we are the children of God" or something like that.

As soon as this happened the first thing I got delivered of was profanity. Of all the things that I was still doing, and would still do for several more years, profanity was the one thing that I immediately cut out of my life. I was saying curse words constantly, cursing like a sailor my entire Young Life, and to this day, six years later, I still don't curse unless I'm really really really upset. I don't even like saying minor bad words. It's interesting how I immediately stopped cursing like that, cold turkey, and haven't started back. I guess everyone has ceartain things they drop really easily.

so after that I met all the people from all the Christian groups on campus and found my way to living in a house sharing it with four other Christian guys and we all went to the same house church on campus and it was really the best time of my young adult life. I was going through scripture all the time, reading the Bible all day, sneaking the Bible in to my job on campus and reading it when no one was looking because we weren't allowed to read on the job. I had scripture all over the wall on notecards, I was listening to worship music all day, I was completely consumed in everything that had to do with Christianity. I was listening to sermons constantly, and I was friends with other Christian guys around my age that were also really on fire for Jesus like I was. I was still doing drugs occasionally and drinking and smoking cigarettes and being lazy and had all kinds of issues in my heart which I still, six years later, and working out but I never lost my love for God.

I don't want to go on and on I just wanted to share my initial experience of finding God, I like sharing it with people. It was like I was super naturally led into the Student Center that night to meet the campus Minister Jake. I've been pursuing God ever since but have also been struggling very very badly in lots of areas. when I was a kid I even said to myself one time "I think when I get older I'm going to be very religious." I didn't know God existed back then but for some reason I knew I would be a Christian.

Am I perfect now? Absolutely not. In fact I think I have more issues than anybody I know, Christians and non Christians. I fell very, very far into sin, I even got worse in some areas after being saved... I think I was a worse sinner than anybody I know, except for maybe one or two other people. I was kicked out of 2, almost 3 high schools, for marijuana/drug use, between the ages of 18-25 I was arrested like 17 times for drug and alcohol related stuff... I was very sick and lost, and unable to function in society. But I still loved God and I'm still not giving up. I guess you could say I'm gracefully broken.

So yeah, that's how it happened for me. I went through 6 years of rebelling, going from church to church, denomination to denomination, meeting all kinds of Christians, falling in and out of sin, moving from place to place, and never truly finding the "peace that surpasses understanding", but God was with me the whole time, and that same Holy Spirit that entered me at the University was still within me... I still haven't found that peace but I know I'm getting closer. I sometimes feel discouraged for not being farther along but I guess it's all in God's timing. There was some things I had to learn and I guess I had to learn them by my stubborn flesh and "self" failing over and over and over. I have learned so much about spiritual realities through all my failures.

Thanks for reading :)

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