It Finally Happened

Years ago I met a woman who was the wife of a European diplomat. I had been speaking at a ladies’ luncheon, and afterward she came up to me. “You know something, Mr. Palau?” she said. “Ever since I was a little girl, I have gone to church every single Sunday.”

Yet she said that many Sundays she would come out of church and say, ‘But God, nothing happened! Nothing happened!'” “But today,” she said, “I prayed the prayer to invite Jesus into my heart. And when I prayed, it finally happened!”

Romans 10 says, “If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and you believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.”

You may be in the same boat as that woman was. It may be that intellectually you believe in Christ. You say, yes, there has to be a God, and if He created us, surely He loves us. But then you say, “Nothing has really happened in my spirit. What’s missing?”

What’s missing is simply the step of decision, where you confess with your lips and say, “Jesus, you are my Lord. I believe in you with all my heart.” And when you do that, suddenly, ‘it happens,’ and you enter into the kingdom of God!