We accept the gift.
We are filled with the Spirit.
We begin to walk in holiness.
The oddest thing: we stand purified and complete without ever reading the Law or know the Text. Yet we DO know it! We read a page and it sounds familiar, something we've read before, someplace. We feel...at home in the Word. It feeds something in us. We realize we were saved by hearing the Word.
It calls to us now for something more.
We can do as others. We can say, "Thanks for the gift. See you in eternity." We can walk back to the things we used to do. Put our feet up and watch the game. Check out porn on the net. Keep living with our boyfriend. Keep those trysts with someone we meet only for passion. Chase the money and the cars and the houses. Go on as if nothing has happened.
But something happened. And we can't pretend we were not changed.
We watched the old shows and they were pointless.
We tried to find warmth in the affair and found only a dusty, tired lust, meaningless without love.
Even the car polish smells odd. Uninviting.
So we know we've changed. We find joy in just talking to friends about it. In meeting other Christians. In taking time to sit on a park bench.
We know we've changed.
We just don't realize yet how much.
