Good with God

There's a new ad campaign in Dallas at the moment. Adorning several downtown buses is a large billboard that states "Millions of Americans are Good without God"

My first response to hearing this was sadness. Oh how well I remember the days I thought I was "good without God." I thought I had it all under control. No sweat, I could handle anything. I didn't need God. He was just a concept, not a reality that influenced any part of my life. I was good!

Except I wasn't....not even close. I was miserable and lost and wretched and broken and completely devoid of hope. I just didn't know it.

I can't even begin to describe the change in my soul, in my core being, over the past two/three years. Ever since God called me out on that lie that I was "good" without him. Every day I fall more and more in love with Christ. My whole worldview has shifted. When I think of where I was headed and what my life amounted to before Christ saved me, I rejoice. Christ is not a restriction placed on your life. He is not a set of rules to follow, or pleasures denied your flesh, he IS freedom! He IS pleasure! There can be none without HIM!

I truly understand what is meant now when Christians say that Christ must change your heart, from stone to flesh. Its a very real transformation, for the better. For the first time in my life, I'm ok. Really ok. Nothing has changed about my past, my situation, my future, or my circumstances, but because I have the hope of Christ, everything is different. I just want the whole world to feel this way, to experience God this way.

So when I see signs like these on city buses and billboards, I am not outraged. I'm inspired! How lost is this world. Millions of Americans without God! What a great work the Holy Spirit has to do through me and my fellow Christians. How do I get started?