Can you remember before you were saved?

Let's see, since salvation is based on a logical decision of the conscious mind, wouldn't anyone that is saved remember before salvation

Since I was 17 or so, yes, I remember, not that I really want to, I wasn't any prize

 

I wrote my testimony for a resume recently. I relived wasted years. Years of drinking and drugging. Years of loss. Thank God for His Grace

 

Yes, it wasn't THAT long ago for me. Almost 6 yrs now.

Ok, very short version.....
Before Christ I was a complete heathen that didn't desire God or anything about Him, like talking to Him, reading/studing HIs Word, worshipping Him, praising Him, being thankful for Him or anything. I didn't love Him.

After Christ all that changed! I want to live for Him. I love Him very much. He has changed me in so many ways already, in my thoughts and actions. What a difference. It's wild!

I used to think I was a Christian just because I believed in God and I was a so called 'good' person. I wondered what line I had to cross before I would go to hell, crazy things like that. I finally realized I was a sinner on my way to hell, that I needed a Savior. I didn't ever remember accepting Christ and what He had done for me or cried out for forgiveness of my sins. So I finally understood after praying countless times that it 'took' the first time I meant it. LOL I was on my own really trying to figure it all out, what a mess! Oh well, God helped me.

Everyday I Praise Him and thank Him for being so AWESOME!! I know He is with me no matter what, Praise His HOLY name!

God Bless,
Rachel

 

Yes, I remember, it was only 14 1/2 yrs. ago and I was definitely at a "mature" age.

Not only was I not a Christian but I was anti-Christian -- wrote articles against Christianity, spoke against it, etc. I remember one 3-part article was about how Christ was the avatar of the Piscen Age. I said Jesus was not coming back in the clouds or sky, but had come back via films. I was talking about "The Last Temptation of Christ."

I was an astrologer, follower of Eastern religions, and practiced occult arts. I've posted it before, but for those who may want to read it, here is my testimony:
http://cana.userworld.com/cana_spiritualjourney.html

 

I was saved when I was 22. I am 37 now, so, yes, I remember it very well.

I was raised pagan, a child of evolution and science. Christianity was the biggest joke ever known to man. I was into Dungeons and Dragons, Magic:The Gathering, Vampire:The Masquerade, dabbling in the occult.

It took a lot for God to get my attention, but He got it. 'Nuff said.

In Christ,
Trotter

 

I was always sympathetic to religion and the idea that there was a sovereign God and I was always "the good kid", anyway, so it wasn't really that much of a shock when I became a Christian.

The biggest things that changed was that I quit smoking so much pot (I say "so much", as opposed to any because I did smoke pot for a long while even after I became a Christian) and my ahem, recreational habits with the opposite sex changed.

 

It, what life was like before I was saved, is beginning to fade. I was thinking about that a while ago myself. I grew up "christian" making decisions and "rededicating" myself quite a few times. Did search for the truth quite often at conferences and revivals and it helped me walk straight for a few days or weeks (sorta). My life was nothing you would call seriously depraved, but love was not there without some kind of emotional uplifting or whatnot. I was very self-conscious. One day, when driving home from a Cowboys game, a friend told me his sister-in-law would move "when God showed her it was the right time" in a sarcastic tone that ridiculed Chrisianity. That moment two things struck me; First, He did not see me as a person who sought God's guidance, and secondly, I wasn't. After that I simply quit trying, quit going to church, quit everything Christian and just became a secular "good" person. One Sunday, maybe a year later, I picked up the Bible to check something out and did not put it down again. Began to read everything I could with the strongest desire for His Word I had ever had. Prayed all the time, read countless theological books. I had not idea what happened to me because it was nothing I had ever been known before. I fell in love with Christ and it scared my wife half to death. She would peek in my room at me surrounded by books with a quizical look. I wouldn't blame her if she had said to me, "Okay, enough, where is my husband". I wasn't anything like I was before. It has been years now, and I do look back once and a while and think about what my spirit was like back then. I think it is important I do once in a while to remind myself Who saved me and how my own efforts failed.

"How sweet it was when grace appeared the hour I first believed."