Reflections

Cultured  or Converted?

We come into the Kingdom of God not through evolution but by revolution. There are some who feel that they can become part of the Kingdom by exposing themselves week by week to the activities of

the Christian Church and its teaching- salvation by osmosis. A friend of mine who is a vicar in a nearby Church  calls such people cultured Christians. They have all the appearance of being genuine

children of God but they have never personally undergone the life-changing experience which the Bible calls conversion. Why is it that many struggle against Christ's assistance to repentance as being

the first prerequisite to the Kingdom of God? It is not that the first instinctive reaction of the human heart is to raise up barriers against an intruder? Christ demands to be admitted on His own terms into our lives and this of course, runs diametrically opposite to the self-centred instinct which runs deep within our beings. We struggle to preserve our ego intact and avoid anything that challenges the pride  principle that has entwined about our nature. We fear that having Him we have naught else beside.

Let there be no doubt about it-the only way into the Kingdom of God is when we repent our sins and 

allow God to bring us into His Kingdom by the miracle of conversion. And what is Conversion? Someone has defined it as the change, sudden or gradual by which we pass from the kingdom of self

into the Kingdom of God. ' May I sincerely ask whether this has happened to you?