Subj : Changed Lives Are Possibl
To   : All
From : Newborn
Date : Wed Sep 21 2005 01:19:00

Lord Kenneth Clark, internationally known for his television series
'Civilization', lived and died without faith in Jesus Christ.  In his
autobiography, he wrote about an overwhelming religious experience he had
while visting a church.

'My whole being", Clark wrote, "was irradiated by a kind of heavenly joy far
more intense than anything I had known before."  Unfortunately, the "flood of
grace," as he described it, created a problem for him.  If he allowed himself
to be influenced by it, he knew he would have to change.  His family might
think he lost his mind.  Or perhaps the intense joy would prove to be an
illusion.  So he concluded, "I was too deeply embedded in the 'world' to 
change course."

What a tragedy!  If only he had responded to that grace-granted glimpse of
another world!  If only he had allowed it to turn his attention away for this
world and toward Jesus!  Then he would have become a part of that invisible
world, which is not an illusion but a glorious reality.

God can enable ANY of us to change, no matter how deeply embedded we may be in
this world and it's problems.  The miracle of the new birth (John 3:5-7) will
tale place when we say yes to the stirring of God's grace in our souls.

"Salvation is not reformation but transformation."

Newborn

Christianity is a personal relationship, not a religion.

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