What Changes Have You Noticed Since Accepting Jesus Christ as Your Higher Power?
- Wisdom – I always had plenty of brains, but my timing and delivery was awful. Essentially, I lacked wisdom and found myself playing ping-pong between legalism and living in license. Only place where that pure wisdom can come from is God. I received my first taste when doing the 30 days of wisdom series on this blog a couple years ago.
- Removing fear to follow God’s will – I’m still a chicken about sharing my faith offline but it God has removed much of the fear which kept me from obeying his will in my life.
- Starting to actually care about other people – I remember doing charitable acts as parts of groups (church stuff, scouts, etc.) but I never remember doing it outside of formalized groups. Even now when it’s not work time or school time, I want to make it either “me” time, or “us” time (meaning my family)… however, God is starting to break that down where I’m seeing needs and how God may want to bless another. Of course whether I do it or not is a different story, but it’s much different than before.
- Letting Go of the Past – It was very hard to forgive people who I felt did me wrong. I wanted revenge or at least to justify myself. You’ve probably seen some of this process over the last few years as I started blogging through recovery and the 12 steps. During this time, God has given me the ability to truly forgive… or at least my current understanding of forgiveness. It feels great, and worth every bit of pain it took to get here.
So how about you? What has changed in your life now that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Higher Power?
Jealousy – he turned it upside down. I tried forever to push it down and hide it because I didn’t want to be like my biological father. However, it always resurfaced in the worst way. I cried out to God, recognized that without Him I would never conquer it. He answered my cries!
Now, if I could be more faithful in desiring His strength with patience, worry, lust, idolatry … I’d be moving in the right direction! The great part is, as you know, He loves us as we are right now. Of course, knowing Him, makes me want to ditch these sins even more.
Absolutely Bryan – the reminder that God isn’t waiting for us to fix X, Y, and Z before he loves us completely is a great encouragement. Thanks for sharing!
i Feel Happier! A LOT Happier! And i feel the sudden urge to do good things for people!
Within finding god I was able to overcome and shake off all the bad emotions i carry with me. I’m just starting to make a relationship to him. I used to have a real strong week each year where I could feel his power inside me. I don’t want his love to be an once-a-year thing. I wanna shout to the heavens with joy and sing his praises! Amen!
yup really really good,…praise the lord
may peace and love always follow u the rest of your life
Before, I felt worthless, alone, torn, lonely, unwanted, like no one cared, I hated my life and the world. But after I accepted Christ, he brought me up out of my sorrow and where all those feelings of regret and deep pain had been, love, hope, and passion remain.
Before coming to Christ I found my recovery from Alcoholism to be “sufficient”. I always had a lot of trouble with acceptance and determining God’s will for my life. The other night around the AA campfire we have at our place on Saturday nights the question of how to wear the world like a loose garment came up. That was easy for me…now that I love the Lord I know what my final destination is, I know that the world is in the state it is due to the effects of sin and that it is all happening right on schedule. Because of knowing God’s word I now know why my life is the way it is and why the world sucks and what the outcome of the story is. There are times when I can hardly believe that Jesus came to save a wretch like me…Praise you Lord!