How Jesus Saved Me 4

It was another Sunday morning.

My grandmother had been begging my husband and I to bring our son and come to church with her for days. So finally I gave in to her constant pushing to get her off my back.

I’m glad I did.

I was raised in church, but when I got to be a teenager I fell out of going regularly to almost never.

My grandparents were going to a church in a nearby town & occasionally my husband and I would go with them.

To be quite frank, I dreaded it!

The last thing I wanted to do was sit on a cold seat and listen to a preacher talk for an hour.

Boy was I clueless.

So I went in and sat down, like it was any other typical church-going Sunday morning. Not expecting anything different.

Hah, I didn’t know what was going to hit me.

The choir went up and started singing hymns.

One of the young ladies stood up and gave her testimony. She explained what it meant to be saved and all you had to do was ask forgiveness of your sins and ask Jesus to enter your heart. 

Light bulb.

All I have to do is ask forgiveness and ask Jesus to enter my heart.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8-9

I started to panic, wheels started turning in my head, I’m not saved.

I couldn’t concentrate on anything.

I couldn’t focus.

How could Jesus love me.

A sinner.

Someone who has committed so many sins I can’t forgive myself for the sins I’ve committed.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 3:23-24

I had a tugging feeling at my heart and at that moment I knew I wasn’t saved and Jesus didn’t reside in me.

I sat through the church service worried. So concerned. Contemplating on what I was going to do.

I had one of two choices. Sit there and do nothing about it, or when the preacher calls the altar call to go up there and get right with Jesus.

I made my mind up. As soon as he called the altar call, I was going to get saved.

The preacher called the altar call.

My knuckles were so white gripping that bench.

I went to the altar.

My heart was racing.

My palms were sweaty.

How do I do this? I thought.

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. Romans 10:9-11

A young lady walked up and prayed with me.

She asked me “do you know Jesus?”

I replied “no” and started crying.

The guilt. The shame. It overwhelmed me. 

I was lost.

She asked if I wanted to be saved.

I told her yes.

She replied “All you have to do is ask forgiveness of your sins and ask Jesus in your heart.”

I did.

I prayed to my sweet Jesus. To be washed in the blood. 

He saved me.

Sweet Jesus had his arms wide open!!! 

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I stood up and a weight was lifted from my shoulders.

I know it was my sins.

I stood up in front of the church and confessed with my mouth Jesus saved me!

I was a different person. Completely different. A happy different. A GOOD different.

I felt different, I thought different.

I didn’t really know much about being a Christian and what being Christ-like meant.

Sure I heard about it in Sunday School but I didn’t really remember.

After I was saved by God’s Marvelous Grace, I had a need, a desire, to learn more about Him.

I am so thankful for God.

For sending Jesus to die on the cross for our unworthy sins.

A being so pure and so honest dying for the worlds sins.

Someone who was in the flesh, like you and I, and was tempted to the uttermost, but didn’t sin. Not once.

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin. Hebrews 4:15

Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 1 Peter 2:22

But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 1 Peter 1:19

I am so thankful my grandmother nagged us to go to church that morning.

I am so thankful for sweet Jesus. For allowing me to be saved. 

On March 21^st 2009 my life was changed.

I became a born again Christian by the Grace of God!

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