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My Conversion.
By: Edwin. Date: February 25, 2013, 6:11 am
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How I became a Christian.‏
I was nearly 30 years old when the Lord saved me. For most of
that time I was either agnostic, atheist, or indifferent. For as
long as I can remember I have always had an insatiable thirst
for knowledge. How does this work?. How does that work?. What
makes people what they are?. When my schoolboy friends were out
playing games like cricket, football, or chasing girls, I would
be found in the local library reading room finding out as much
as I could about my latest interest.
With a name like Brain, and my interests it is no wonder I got
the nickname, "The professor", or, "Mister know it all". I
didn't really care what they called me, I was a loner. I would
do my own thing in my own way. I particularly enjoyed a battle
of wits with anyone, as I always won, or at least I thought so.
I especially looked out for people of a Religious disposition,
as I really enjoyed exercising my superior knowledge, and
shooting them down in flames as it were, but then one day in the
late summer of 1961 when looking out of the office window where
I worked, I saw in our car park a Bedford mini bus with the
words, "Even Christ pleased not himself", written on its side in
letters of gold 3" high.
I enquired whose this was, and the owner was pointed out to me.
I made my mind up there and then that he would be my next
victim. In due course I spoke to this man, and to cut a long
story short he invited me to his home, to which I went for 8
successive Friday evenings, I was very much impressed with him,
he is very well educated, and also very sincere. He wanted me to
become a Christian like him, and kept on asking me if I was yet
ready to receive Jesus as my saviour. I told him I could say the
words he wanted me to say, but I knew that I would not mean
them, not that I did not want to, I did, but I knew that it
would not work if I didn't mean what I said.
The problem was the enormity of my sin, which I considered to
great for God to forgive. It was near to midnight, and his wife
and his 5 children were all in bed. At this point the Lord
caused his youngest child a girl about 18 months old, to cry
out, he excused himself and left the room, saying I don't want
my wife to be disturbed, I will go and see what is the matter.
This left me alone as it were, I said to myself this man wants
me to become a Christian like him, well maybe someday I will.
But if I ever do then I will have to do what they do, they pray,
and I don't know how to pray.
I wondered what to do next, I had opened the bible a number of
times whilst visiting my friend, and often found the verses that
I read spoke to me powerfully, often dealing with the very
problem that I had in my mind at that moment. Now I opened it
once again at random, and found myself reading Luke Ch 11 from v
1. "Teach me how to pray". The Lord spoke to me in His still
small voice, and said "Why am I doing this, why am I as it were
taking time off from running this vast universe to come down
into this room to be with you to cause you to open my book just
where I want you to open it, to read the very verse that I want
you to read that tells you that I know just what your problem
is, if as you say your sin is too great for me to forgive?.
I had no answer for this, and with tears streaming down my face
I looked up and said "Because you love me"...
That is how I became a Christian.
PS. The above was written about eight years ago, and before I
realized the significance of the actual date of my new birth,
which as it happened was Friday the 8th of December 1961, and
also that it was the 8th successive Friday evening. As I feel
sure you are aware the number 8 in the Bible means, fresh start,
new beginning,
although all this happened more than 51 years ago, it is only
recently that I have seen the connection
Every blessing
Edwin Brain.
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