On this day during my quiet time, I considered what part I played in being saved. I believe that God the Father told me quietly, just as I had nothing to do with my natural birth; I had nothing to do with saving myself! No one can really be born again or saved without God the Father performing the saving action. It is clearly written that by His Spirit we are born again.

When I was a very young man, I did not see a need for being saved. I hadn't lived very long and did not really have any scriptural experience to know about the condition of all mankind. God and I have spent all these years together, yet for a long while I was gravitating toward my sinful lusts of my flesh. When Holy Spirit convicted me of my need for Him to save me, that was the moment I was born again. Since then, it has been a process of baptism by fire that the Lord Jesus performs by His Spirit. Now I have begun a life journey with Him and have the security I had longed for when I was a child. Praising my Saviour all the day long has true meaning at this moment!