by Lester Nixon

Created on: July 13, 2008   Last Updated: September 15, 2008

In my youth, I decided to investigate many different religions. I wanted to see for myself what they were all about and what other people believed. At the age of seven, I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal lord and savior. I believe in the Bible, and I feel that the different versions of the Bible give you a better view of religion from all the different religions as well as clarify certain verses and passages which I enjoy reading very much.

As a child, I met many Catholics. Catholics, Baptists and Jehovah's witnesses and I respect their opinions and beliefs. However, over the years in my younger days, I visited many churches of different denominations including Catholic and it just reinforced what I feel. My beliefs have led me to a personal relationship with God, Christ and the Holy Spirit. I believe a believer must read and study the Bible daily. Just as we eat, breathe, bathe or work daily, so should we not neglect our belief, and sustain it with reading to help our understanding grow.

God is a spirit and we must worship and serve that spirit by living in the truth and the way of God, knowing that our lives will merit us being saved and that our hearts will be looked after by Jesus our savior. Jesus says that the bridge to God and to our salvation lies within our thoughts and actions rather than who we are. We don't have to be celebrities to gain that reward. We just have to live a life which is faithful to our belief. As the word of God says ((we must worship God in spirit and in truth.). We must I feel have a personal relationship with God, his word Jesus and The Holy Spirit! I believe the Bible is true and is the living word of God! I believe in the power of prayer

In these days, I see and believe we are in the last days and that no one knows the final hour except God. I feel and see in my own life that the church must begin with the individual. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit want us to be followers and to let them dwell here with us. Billy Graham says in his crusades that it isn't our religion, our status, our denomination, race, color or job we do that matter, but that it is ourselves that are the true key to belief and reward.

I find so many people are truly seeking a personal relationship with God, not just in the traditional manner of religion. Tradition is fine and convenient perhaps for thanksgiving and turkeys but I do feel that we need to live the life of believers rather than just remember at times which are mapped out as special by human beings. I have God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit living in me! I believe they will not forsake me, and we need to live in love and remember that we are all God's children, no matter what background we live in and should learn to forgive those to whom the message is not quite so clear, as these are the lost people who need our blessing, understanding, prayer sand our testimony of how accepting Jesus Christ as our personal lord and savior has changed our life.

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