Mom, did you feel what I felt, when people were trying to tell me the truth? I felt a lot of animosity toward them, because I thought they were trying to disturb the religious peace. When I watched their pure lives however, I could not poke any holes in it, and I realized they had something I didn’t, and it just seemed to make me more angry, because I knew my lifestyle fell far short of theirs. It wasn’t till I found faith in Christ myself, that the hate and bitterness left me. I then apologized to some of the people I had bad mouthed before. They just took it in stride, and never bothered to respond to anything I may have said previously, they just welcomed me into the fellowship. I don’t know what others have experienced, I only know what I experienced. That is why I ask.
There was one guy I worked with who was a Christian and I couldn’t stand him for a lot of reasons, and sadly they weren’t because he was a Christian.
He was not a nice person for all his witnessing.
And yet, being under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, I somehow KNEW what he was saying was true.
So it was his words and the life lived by another person who I knew before he became a Christian and I had watched the change in his life that convinced me of the truth of the preaching of the guy I didn’t like.
And BTW, I didn’t like him any more after I became saved.