MY SALVATION EXPERIENCE

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Today, I just feel like sharing with you all my salvation experience as a very young girl in secondary school.

I was born into a Christian home where we normally have devotion every morning at 5.00am.  My dad rings the prayer bell and everyone must come out for early morning prayers. We also do not miss church during the week and every Sunday. My mother thought us to read the Bible in our mother tongue and I have a grandmother who always tells us Bible stories like folktales. So I have been conscious of God right from childhood.

But coming from a Christian background or being God conscious is not tantamount to accepting Christ as Lord and personal savior. They are two different things. Yes I pray, read the Bible daily, go to church and always try to be a good girl but I never knew I had to personally commit my life to Christ and accept Him as my Lord and Saviour.

So when I got into secondary school, I joined the school fellowship which was handled then by The Student Christian Movement (SCM).  Not long after we resumed school, SCM organized a weekend camp programme at Mate Nursery and Primary School, Ketu Lagos. I went in the company of other children to the camp ground and it was a very exciting period for me. We got there Friday evening and settled into our hostels. After dinner we were to watch a film. That film changed my life completely.

I have forgotten the title of the film. But it’s all about a seven year old boy living with his grandmother. They were poor and the grandmother did petty trading to keep spirit and soul together. They lived in a town which normally experience a recurrent natural disaster – flooding.

A young missionary visited the town and got interested in the little boy. He made sure the boy started attending school and instructed the boy to always come to him for anything they need. He also led them to Christ and made sure they attend church regularly.

One day the boy’s grandmother fell seriously ill and the boy did not know what to do. He started crying and his grandmother told him to go and call the young missionary. Unknown to the boy and his grandmother, the ocean has over flown its boundaries and the whole town was becoming flooded. As the boy was running towards the young missionary’s house, the flood was coming towards his direction. God so good, the young missionary saw the boy and the danger he was in from afar, so he started running towards his direction. The flood was coming with full force and it hits a big rock. The rock started coming down directly on the boy. The young missionary saw that the rock was going to hit the boy so he ran with all his might and covered the boy. The rock fell right on the young missionary’s head instead of the boy. He died on the spot. The missionary gave up his life for the boy.

We were all in tears. The light came on and one of the uncles started explaining the film to us. He told us that we were all sinners deserving death because the wages of sin is death. Just as the young missionary died in place of that young boy, Christ died in our stead. So if we decide to forsake our sinful ways, yield our lives to Him and ask him to be our Lord and Saviour, He will come into our lives and we will be saved and born again, free from sin and partakers of eternal life. The altar call was called and I came out. That was how I gave my life to Christ and became born again. That was when I knew Christ actually came to die in my stead to deliver me from the consequence of sin which is death. And since then He has been my source and provider. My constant help in the time of need. I owe Him my life and entire existence.

Have you accepted him as your Lord and Saviour. You might be asking “why do I have to accept Christ as my Lord and Savior?”  The first reason is for you to have Eternal Life. I believe you know that you are a spirit being. When man dies his body returns to dust from which it was created and the spirit goes back to God to give an account of what it has done in the flesh.

“So then each of us shall give an account of himself to God” Romans 14:12 NKJV.

What account are you going to give your Maker? Man was created to give God pleasure. Have you lived your life glorifying Him or pleasing yourself and indulging in sin? Remember, the wages of sin is death.

The second reason you need Christ is for your security here on earth. We live in a very wicked world.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”Epheshian 6:12 NKJV.

Can you please tell me how you hope to combat the devil and his wicked principalities without Jesus.? Only His name overcomes the devil and his hosts.

“Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Phillippians 2:9-11 NKJV.

So what are you waiting for? Jesus loves you. Accept him today and start to enjoy the abundant life he has to offer. Shalom.