Born Again

by Sharon
(Riverside, CA, USA)

The following scrapbook page is a depiction of what it means for me to be a Christian. For me, to be born again, means that when I accepted Christ as my Savior, I was given a new understanding of myself in God's eyes. Not one of judgment, but one of grace.

It is true that the Christian walk is a kind of journey. I accepted Christ when in the third grade. At that age, it is easier to believe in the unseen than when one is older. I asked my mother at that time if Jesus was real...real like me. She told me yes. The reason, as best as I can recall that I asked was because I was hearing around the school that Christ was some made up fable. One evening I made the personal choice of asking Jesus to come into my heart. I have stumbled along the way but I have learned how real the Lord is to me and how very much Christ means to me in my life, more today than in the beginning.

I am like many who may not always know what I ought to pray for. One verse I like answers this dilemma this way...Romans 8:26 (NIV) says "In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express."