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Well, it just happened. Totally unexpected, totally Jesus. There were several factors leading up to my relationship I have now with the Lord...
1. I had always known the name Jesus when I was younger, but I never knew anything about living the life or even really understanding what it meant to accept Him as my Savior. I just lived day by day, knowing the name and a few very well known bible passages, but I never lived the life or accepted Him. I never had to. I wasn't raised that way. I'm glad though, because that contributed to what made my salvation so special. Factor #1
2. Growing up and getting into high school, I began to know a lot more christian people and began to hang out with some. They never pushed me or even talked much about their faith. I just knew it and sometimes they would mention it. I guess just getting older had put me in a place of being more aware of religion and politics and such. I was asked to go to church by my algebra teacher during those years too. It was cool. I saw a lot of stuff, but it didn't really appeal to me. Somehow I was brought into this room with this pastor, who was trying to get me saved. He had me read a couple of passages, and then we prayed and then I was saved. NOT! I still wasn't saved, though I went through the motions, because it wasnt in my heart. I did it because I was pushed to do it. That wasn't what God wanted me to do, He didn't want me to get saved in front of people pushing me to get saved. He wanted ME to get saved, all of me just the way I am. So that day I wasn't saved, though it may have been a great contributor to when I actually did get saved. Factor #2
3. My grandmother is a very religious person. She's really into God and she goes all over the world constantly to do mission work. Well, one day she sent my family a very nice, very expensive Application Bible. I spent years with that bible in my home, not using it very much at all except when my buddies would ask me to go to church with them. Hey, I had to look "Holy", so I took it with me. Factor #3
Well, one day I was in a mellow mood, and I was bored so I needed something to do. It was late at night, but I didn't feel like sleeping, so I somehow got a hold of the bible my grandma sent my family. Well, I was thinking, and I decided that I should really take a look in it, since I didn't really want to waste my grandma's hard-earned money. Hey! I did have morals, (just not in the right place)! Well, somehow I turned to Psalm 41, and I read it, and it was one of the most coolest things I have ever read in my life. I loved what it said! I loved how David was writing to God about his problems, yet he still had this passion for and love for God, ...something that I didn't have. David's problems were nothing as great as the love David had for God. I loved that passage, and that night I really asked God to come to me, to let me have what David had. And that night I felt a warm tingling feeling throughout me, and I was saved that same night. After that, I was led to a major bible study, which I am still doing today. I have a love for the bible like no other book. I tell you, I cant get through a school book, but boy, give me a night and I'll read a book or two of the bible. I also like other Christian literature. It's great! Now I have encountered more beautiful passages in the bible than Psalm 41 (like 1st Corinthians 13-the Love passage, the coolest), but I love all of the bible, because it's THE GOOD NEWS! Im going to heaven, and that is the greatest thing I can ever get. I got a new Best Friend, and that is extremely cool, considering He's the only friend that would ever die for me the way He did. Jesus is Lord, and I love that! Now, I just wait and anxiously wait to see what the Lord has in store for me next!!!!!
Branden Williams Forever Student of the Lord
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