How I Accidentally Found God and Got Saved
By Angie Lewis
Most people, when you ask them how they were saved, will tell
you they were in church, and the worship leader called those who
had not accepted Christ for their life yet, to come up to the
podium to be saved. But are you truly saved just because a
church leader said so? Are you really saved just because you
believe? Salvation usually comes upon us accidentally because of
your timing being right with God’s timing for you, and that
timing may not be while you are in church.
Technically speaking we are saved when we believe in Jesus
Christ as our Savior, but what is our heart and mind telling us?
What are we doing with our belief? Do we have a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ? Do we feel that we are a part of
God’s family here on earth? To be saved we must repent, feel
sorrow for our sins, and be willing to turn our life around.
Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to
salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
II Corinthians 7:10
Did you know that you do not have to be in a church building to
be saved? In fact sometimes being in church can stifle the
impact of our salvation. Salvation comes from the heart, not
because someone said we’re saved.
Salvation is a personal commitment we have with Christ and can
happen at anytime and anywhere. Maybe you’re in your car driving
to work and your thoughts go to the spiritual nature of your
Creator and at once you realize what your true mission is in
life, and from that day forward you follow Christ with a willing
heart. Maybe you wake up from a drug overdose, grateful to be
alive, and you suddenly realize how much you need God. This is
how we accidentally find God and are saved. The main point is
our willingness to give up our own life for Christ.
If anyone would come after me, he must deny
himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants
to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me
will find it.
Matthew 16:24-25
Salvation is so personal that your calling and purpose in life
will be nothing like anyone else’s. God may actually lead us to
an adventure of our lifetime, preaching the gospel in some
foreign country. We don’t know what God will have in store for
us until He leads us where He wants us to go. Someday you may be
witnessing to others about how you accidentally found God and
got saved.
But when the kindness and love of God our
Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteousness
things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us
through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our
Savior.
Titus 3:4-6
Where is God leading you in your salvation? If you are married
God wants you to be a good spouse and take care of your family,
building them up and encouraging them to be strong in the Lord.
God knows that when we’re married and have families most of us
will be busy taking care of them because that is where our
responsibilities are at that time in our life. If you have
children, God wants you to be busy protecting and caring for
them as well. If you are single, God may have more in mind for
you, and lead you to that adventure of a lifetime. Most
importantly, you need to let God lead you, not you lead you to
where you think you ought to go.
How will you know if you are saved? I really can’t answer that
for you because that is something between you and God. But I do
know this much. Salvation is a lifestyle of “doing the will” of
God and living our life as Christ-like as humanly possible. The
bible is our guidebook, it has all the guidance and wisdom we
need towards our salvation and living our purpose in this life
on earth. Anyone has the ability to be saved but you must seek
Him with all your heart and mind.
I write these things to you who believe in
the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have
eternal life.
1 John 5:13
