The Moment of my Conversion
Updated: Sep 30, 2022
Too many Christians are unclear about their conversion. Actually, my own conversion was very confusing. It was rather sudden and without much transition. Going from being an avid anti-Christian who shook Christians' faith for fun to becoming a born-again Christian who had the faith he used to shake was dizzying, primarily because it was so sudden.
After my rather abrupt conversion I still had all these arguments against Christianity in my head, yet I believed in God—talk about confusion. My anti-Christian friends converged on me and asked, "What’s with this mess?" What happened?" "Why are you playing this game?" They didn't get it. They couldn't make heads or tails out of what was going on with me; unfortunately, neither could I. In response to their questions, I could only babble. I made absolutely no sense at all, just like the Christians I used to give a hard time. I had become one of them—those crazy, nonsensical Christians who talk all that nonsense that not even they understand, and somehow, it’s supposed to make sense to the unbeliever, but then that's right; it’s not supposed to make sense; according to them you're just supposed to believe. And here I was, talking just like them. I thought that day would never come, but there it was.
This was intolerable. I eventually went to a three-day fast (no food or water) at my
grandfather's church, and I basically prayed a seventy-two-hour, one sentence prayer over and over: “Lord give me understanding.” At the end of the fast, as I was walking towards the exit door of the church, with each step, something new became clear. I would think, "Oh, yeah. Now I get it," "That makes sense,” “Oh, so that's why..." I had a new realization (or was it a revelation?) with each step. That was the beginning of the end of the babbling, nonsensical Christian and the beginning of the logical, coherent, and articulate Christian God intended me to be, that he intended every Christian to be.
This article was written by Warrior Richardson
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