{"id":257,"date":"2006-12-01T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/?p=257"},"modified":"2010-03-31T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T18:57:45","slug":"my-new-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"My New Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 1st, 2006 is\/ was the day I truly converted to Christ. My life up to that day was hostile to God. I was a proud &#8220;carnal-Christian&#8221;. I was a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>Over a period of\u00a0 a few years, my having cultivated bitterness and resentment towards those closest to me dragged me down into a pit of dispair. My self-decieved love for and proclamation of\u00a0Jesus in the midst of\u00a0habitual\u00a0wickedness\u00a0finally seared my conscience into relentless guilt.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s effectual call was upon me and the sorrow that leads to repentence brought me to my knees&#8230; and then flat-face to the ground. The pit of Hell was before me as well as God&#8217;s holy\u00a0and fiery eyes upon me. I was terrified!<\/p>\n<p>I knew I was\u00a0as wicked as sin\u00a0is&#8230;\u00a0the weight of God&#8217;s presence was crushing my soul. I cried out for mercy, knowing I didn&#8217;t not\u00a0deserve it. I begged God to forgive me, confessing my lifetime\u00a0of sins. I promised to forsake my sins forever.<\/p>\n<p>Broken and humbled, I\u00a0gave up myself to\u00a0His decision. Whatever He willed, I would wholeheartedly accept.<\/p>\n<p>Then I felt a peace wash over me. Oh my Lord and Savior! What great lovingkindness You have shown me! My life changed that day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wrote an account of my salvation on this blog before it crashed&#8230; I hope that I may find\u00a0a copy of it one day. It has more details&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1st, 2006 is\/ was the day I truly converted to Christ. My life up to that day was hostile to God. I was a proud &#8220;carnal-Christian&#8221;. I was a hypocrite. Over a period of\u00a0 a few years, my having cultivated bitterness and resentment towards those closest to me dragged me down into a pit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[71,70,72],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-the-redeemed","tag-born-again","tag-conversion","tag-salvation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}