I'm agnostic but tend to lean towards atheism more as opposed to religion.
More than anything I want God to be there.
I don't want to live my whole life worried about what happens after I die.
I'm scared of the thought of passing away.
I talk to God.
I ask him to lead me towards him.
Nothing ever happens.
I don't get any reassuring feelings.
Hi, Before we come to Christ, we are separated from God, due to the rebellion or fall (sin) of satan and (sin) man and our own sin.
All wrongdoing is sin.
We have before coming to Christ what one may call a fatal disease, sin.. Fatal because if we die in our sin we will go to hell, and always be separated from God, never reconciled.
and as well before Christ we are in bondage to satan, though unawares of course.
With the fall man (adam and eve) believed the lies of satan and man does to this day. satan would keep any from coming to Christ, and achieves this by lies and deception about God, about our condition, keeping people in the dark about God (many do not think of God at all), and there is much done by satan to keep men from God. satan is a liar, deciever and murderer.
You said you talk to God and nothing ever happens.
Do you have faith/trust that Jesus died for your sin and to free us from bondage to satan and that by trusting or having faith in God will reconcile you to God?
That is how one is born again. One way.
There is no reassuring feelings one gets, but we do know when we've come to Christ for the most part.
One at your age or my age would know when we come to Christ, and it's not because of a feeling we get. It's that our lives are changed when we commit our lives to Christ/trust in Christ, have faith in Christ.
To come to Christ, you may need more information, or you may not. But as I highlighted in blue above do you believe that?
You may have stumbling blocks that keep you from God. Nothing can keep God from giving you the free gift of salvation which only comes faith/trust in Jesus as I wrote above.
Jesus is right there waiting for you to have faith and trust in Him. God is not far away.
You do not have to change to come to Christ, you come as you are. God changes us and works in us once we are in Christ and does so until we are with Him in heaven and even there, we will be forever learning of and about God.
If you can think of the things that are keeping you from God, you can post them here and we can help go through them.
Once we are in Christ, we are forgiven our sin past present and future and the healing begins. We still sin, though we seek not to. Every person's walk with God is different and we are all in different places, so one may be walking closely with God and another not, and is okay, as is where they are, and God knows their hearts.
When we come to Christ, we are alive for the first time ever in our lives, and we are free, we are no longer in bondage to the world.
Jesus freed us from the slavery to satan (like I said, unawares people are in slavery to satan) and makes us free in Christ. As we grow in Christ, our minds are renewed or changed as we read the bible and learn truths. Our old way of thinking changes, many no longer desire to do what they did in the past, tho again each person is different and their growth different.
There is nothing any one could offer me that would make me not trust Christ for my life. Nothing..
There is nothing compares to life in Christ.
We will struggle, we will suffer just as non christians do, and in some instances depending on many things, more than non Christians do, but not always, but God says we will suffer and struggle.
Men will hate us because of Jesus. Some of our families consider us nobodies, fools, etc, because we have faith in Jesus.
Some friends will or may no longer desire to be our friends, and we may desire to no longer be friends with those we used to do wrong with.
Though sometimes it works out well, as can remain friends, which is good as then our lives in Christ is revealed thru who we are, not so much by what we say, but by our actions, the change they see in us.
We know in Christ that God works all things to the good for those who believe in Him. So we know that no matter what happens, God will work it to our good. We may not see it that day, it may be years in retrospect or perhaps not seen in this life, but we know that is truth.
We know once in Christ, there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. So when we hear condemnation we know it is not from God.
We know God will never leave us or forsake us, never.. He never let's one of His go. No one can snatch us from the fathers hand.
We know though this world is very difficult that it is a short time here as compares to eternity with God.
We have many things and promises in the bible which help us through every day, every moment, all our lives.
God bless,
tapero
