How Jesus Christ changed my life - forever

Before receiving eternal life I experienced guilt, despair and the feeling that there must something more to this life.

I remember knowing the only way out of my guilt and despair was through God and that He was the "something" missing in my life. But I didn't know the way to Him. It was not until I was told by friends that the way was through repentance and believing that Jesus Christ died for all my sin. Once I placed my faith in Christ I received peace with God and the peace of God. This peace is the knowledge of salvation, eternal life and a personal relationship with God.

Since receiving God's free, gracious gift of salvation I have come to know He will never leave or forsake me. I have come to the knowledge that I have been bought with a price (the blood of Jesus Christ) and have been eternally sealed by the Holy Spirit for all eternity. I have learned the freedom of knowing that I do not labor for Christ to be saved, but rather because I am saved.

Now that I have received God's free gift of salvation I rest in the assurrance that I am His and He is mine. I am no longer "working" my way to heaven.

The realization that, by His work on the cross, Christ forever secured my salvation has freed me from the fear and anguish that somehow I had to earn eternal life through works of my own. This has been a real game changer for me. I no longer feel that I must do good works to earn heaven, I now work to show my deep appreciation for His love toward me and to hopefully be found pleasing in His sight.

I now rest in the full assurrance that Christ bought me with a price (His blood). I belong to Him. No man can take me from His hand. I have been sealed by the Holy Spirit. Nothing can unseal what He has sealed. Nothing can separate me from His love - nothing! By grace I have been saved, through faith and that not of myself, it is the gift of God, lest I should boast.