When I was 20 years old, I was an alcoholic. A judge ordered me to go to an alcohol abuse class for six months. Well, I went to those classes and did stop drinking. I started going to church and thought I could straighten out my own life.
However, I had never trusted Jesus Christ as my Savior. I knew about Jesus. I had even read about Him in the Bible, yet I had never trusted Him. I went to church regularly, yet that could not save me either. I had even been baptized, and still I was not saved.
Then one night in October of 1982, I was watching an evangelist on television. That night I saw for the first time that, though I knew all that facts about Jesus, I had not trusted Him as my Savior. I saw that I was lost and headed for hell. To tell you the truth, I did not want to go to hell. That night I got down on my knees in front of the couch, and I cried out to the Lord to save me. Now I know for sure that I am saved, because I believe God keeps his word.