Why Don’t I Feel Any Different?

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That’s a question that a lot of people have after they’ve prayed the sinner’s prayer and accepted Jesus. They wonder why they don’t feel any different because they expected somehow to have some experience that left them changed in some way. Lots of people believe that there should be some kind of physical experience because they’ve heard reports of others who have had (or claimed to have) such things happen to them.

The answer is that salvation and accepting Jesus is not about feelings at all. It’s about knowledge and choices. It’s about knowledge in that in order to be saved you must know and acknowledge the fact that you are a sinner, you have sinned by doing things that you knew were wrong when you did them and that you have not sought or followed God’s will. Then you have to acknowledge that in order to enter into the kingdom of heaven you must be perfect and that you are not even close to perfect. You have to know that the only way that a sinner can get into heaven is because of the sacrifice of Jesus dying on the cross in your place.

It’s about choices in that while God requires perfection and has made a way in Jesus for everyone to be welcome in heaven, He is not going to make the choice for you. God gave humans the ability to choose their own path.

Deuteronomy 30:19, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”

In that verse God sets before us a choice He recommends one of those choices and then the actual decision is up to each of us.

Once we’ve made the decision, what we have to do is then act on it. A person who accepts Jesus and decides to become a Christian will then need to take time in prayer and studying the Bible in order to learn what God’s will is and then apply that will to their lives. Waiting for a feeling or other experience to somehow confirm that you are in fact saved is a bad idea because while such things do sometimes happen, they are very rare and most people never have them.

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