I Want To Want To Be Saved!

[jmldn2]

Is that crazy? Is that a delusional thing to say? It's true though! I want that conviction to be saved! To be God's child! To serve Him...willingly. But at times I worry if my impulses are just a fad...that here in a few months i won't really care about salvation and surely get that surprise when I find myself in the flames of..heck. I've gotten so spiritually drained that I don't have any strong feeling or conviction. That's why i said i want to want to be saved. I just wish it was a switch I could flip. God's children are so lucky i wish i could be one of them. I want God to draw me... i just don't know what else to do other than confuse myself..

I'm happy you have that desire and that wish. God will help you overcome your doubts and He will certainly grant your wish. The main ingredient, however, is "belief" and without believing He is real there will be a loss. God loves you and He can help you and I pray you will talk with Him just like you have posted here. He already knows your thoughts and His arms are wide open.

 

[ToBeLoved]

Thanks but...I'm still a little discouraged. Like maybe I'm not meant to be saved? I dunno...i have a general awareness of sin and I want to have faith in Jesus but i have no strong conviction whatsoever and it bothers me..

What is interesting Hannah is it seems that you do believe in Jesus. Do you believe that sin is what separates God from man and that Jesus Christ died to take away your sins and reconcile you back to God? That God gave us free-will from the start, that Adam and Eve could not have made the decision to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil if they had not been given free-will in the first place from God?

The simple thing is that it is your choice because you have free-will to CHOOSE if you want to come to Christ. I think that Jesus has been drawing you towards Him. Now the ball is in your court, so to speak. You must CHOOSE Jesus. The only thing that separates you from all the saved Christians in the world is that they have taken that extra step and chose Jesus as their Savior to free them from the penalty of sin which is what separates God and man.

 

[terryjohn]

Know God! Do not imagine that His spirit in us is undectable. Your desire for Him is the first fruits of faith.

 

[aiki]

Is that crazy? Is that a delusional thing to say? It's true though! I want that conviction to be saved! To be God's child! To serve Him...willingly. But at times I worry if my impulses are just a fad...that here in a few months i won't really care about salvation and surely get that surprise when I find myself in the flames of..heck. I've gotten so spiritually drained that I don't have any strong feeling or conviction. That's why i said i want to want to be saved. I just wish it was a switch I could flip. God's children are so lucky i wish i could be one of them. I want God to draw me... i just don't know what else to do other than confuse myself..

As I wrote to you in another thread, Hannah, you are entirely too focused on yourself. And as I also already wrote to you: You don't save yourself; God saves you. So, stressing over how you feel, what you think - or don't think - over how sincere you are, and so on simply orients all your attention on you and does absolutely nothing to secure your salvation. If you want to be saved, you have to trust God, not yourself. You often mention hell as a motivation to seek salvation but God holds out to you His love and fellowship and THAT is what He wants you to respond to.

Selah.

 

[HannahElizaW]

As I wrote to you in another thread, Hannah, you are entirely too focused on yourself. And as I also already wrote to you: You don't save yourself; God saves you. So, stressing over how you feel, what you think - or don't think - over how sincere you are, and so on simply orients all your attention on you and does absolutely nothing to secure your salvation. If you want to be saved, you have to trust God, not yourself. You often mention hell as a motivation to seek salvation but God holds out to you His love and fellowship and THAT is what He wants you to respond to.

Selah.

Haha...Aiki...I wrote/posted/made this several months ago..