Amazing the difference giving one's life to Christ can make.
I got saved at 22 and before that did not lead a terrible life. I would occasionally go out with my friends and drink, but never got drunk. # drinks for me and the room was spinning. But overall, they were social times.
But when I accepted Christ, I even lost the desire to go to bars. Just didn't interest me any more, and that was before I really understood what I had done and what to expect from it, since I had no frame of reference with Christians, only Catholicism.
That came later and I understood then how God can deliver someone from even the desire to do anything questionable.
Hindsight enables me to look back and see how God was working in my life when I had no clue it was Him. thank God for His unspeakable gift.
Now my life is....
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
“... lost half my vocabulary.”
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That’s when you know a conversion is real.
Yes, unlike a mere ritual, effectual penitent, regenerating, heart-purifying, justifying faith in the Divine Son of God, (Acts 2:38-47; Jn. 10:27, 28) effects basic profound changes in heart and life,. Glory and thanks be to God.