Is it too late for me?

[ephraimanesti]

yes. and yes.

What a terribly stupid, callous, and totally erroneous response! Even for a non-believer, your response is inconceivable and reprehensible!

In your ignorance, it is best that you follow your motto and say nothing at all!

ephraim

 

[razeontherock]

[FONT=&quot]Today I had a thought (over a few bowls of pot of all things.). looking back, I realized that it was I who turned my back on God, and not the other way around.[/FONT]
When I turned away from God, I took charge of my own life. And I completely turned my life around. I used to do poorly in school, and today I am doing so well that I will be graduating with a PhD. next year. I’ve made better social relations and my overall view on the world has been much healthier,

I have committed many sins that I would not have previously committed, including blaspheming against the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (the unforgivable sin).

These are the things that need more than just re-assurance, IMHO. I can share my personal experience with them if you like.

In the meantime, you have learned how to live. You were missing that before, and blamed it on God. Didn't work, did it? You're still young, but wiser. You have more to offer, but what God wants is your availability.

I could tell you what my first Pastor told me about blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, but it would do you far more good to air this one out! What did you do that you're thinking God can't or won't forgive?

 

[Chimes]

I opened your topic, because I was curious. I didn't expect to be touched by your comments, but I am. I know that I am late in answering your post but I want to anyway.

I can't speak to your experiences and choices, but I can speak to your question about whether or not it's too late for you to make a choice to follow Jesus Christ as your Savior and to be forgiven of your sins. It's not too late.

As long as you have a breath left in your lungs, and the second coming of Christ has not yet happened, you have time to come back to the God who loves you. Having said this, I want to be sure that I'm not making it seem that you can come back to him "any ol' time", so just run on and do what ya been doin. In no way do I mean that. God wants you now, and if you want to have a relationship with him now, then nothing should stand in the way of that. He's a loving Father, who is waiting for you to return to Him.

As far as your comment about having been born a boy, and feeling you were always meant to be a girl, now living as a woman, that's between you and God. It's not between you, me, and God, or you, God and anybody else. Only God knows who you are, who you were meant to be, what happened between the moment you were formed in your mother's womb, and now. Only God knows if there is a chemical imbalance causing your issues, or if you have a physical abnormality, a genetic abnormality, or a spiritual issue behind all of it. Nobody else can determine that for you. So, seek God as you are. Run to Christ, as you are.

Have you ever heard that song that has always been played at the end Billy Graham crusades, called "Just as I am"? It's a beautiful song that says just what I'm trying to tell you here, so I'll just post the lyrics and let them speak for themselves.

Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid'st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee whose blood can cleanse each spot,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, tho' tossed about
With many a conflict, many a doubt,
Fightings and fears within, without,
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, poor, wretched, blind-
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find-
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

Just as I am, Thou wilt receive,
Wilt welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve,
Because Thy promise I believe,
O Lamb of God, I come! I come!

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

yes. and yes.

The very fact that the person is concerned enough about their spiritual state to be asking whether it is too late for them is an indication that the Holy Spirit is working in them to draw them back to Christ. If a person is beyond hope, they would not be caring about it, but will have gone back into sin and is enjoying it with no intention of even asking how to return to Christ.

Once God has chosen a person for salvation, the Holy Spirit keeps working in that person's heart and life and will not give up until that person is in glory with Jesus. Once a person has come to Christ and has been converted, God will not let that person go back and be lost. True, the person may miss out on a lot of fellowship with God through his or her lifetime, but at the end the person will be saved "as of by fire", getting there with his or her hide but not a lot else. But they will be there.

It is the blind, uncaring person who wants nothing to do with Christ is the person who will be lost. Go to 1 John 1:9, follow the instructions and Jesus will receive you right back into fellowship with Him as if you had never gone away.