It wasn't so when I was a kid. Sunday was reverenced and just as sure as Sunday morning came, there was an unmistakable sense of the awesome presence of worship that captivated a young boy’s heart. and at the age of twelve I accepted the free gift of salvation inviting Him to come into my heart. God in the form of His Holy Spirit took up residence in my soul and I have never been the same. I was quickened and sealed for eternity. Some try to make it complicated but the story of the two jail birds in a Philippian jail says it so well.
The
Philippian Jailer Saved
25 But
at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and
the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly
there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison
were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s
chains were loosed. 27And
the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison
doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was
about to kill himself. 28 But
Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we
are all here.”
29 Then
he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul
and Silas.30 And
he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be
saved?”
31 So
they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be
saved, you and your household.” 32 Then
they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were
in his house. 33And
he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes.
And immediately he and all his family were
baptized.