Some of us are brought up in Christian homes and gradually come to understand the faith of our parents, which we can either accept or reject. Others grow up knowing very little about God but encounter him later in life. Whether we are members of a church from the cradle or go through a conversion experience, our spiritual lives have high points and low points. It can be useful to map that out for yourself and also identify the point in time when we know that we gave our lives to Jesus.
To do this, you can take a sheet of paper, place it orientated landscape in front of you and draw a line across the middle from left to right. The left end of the line represents your birth and the right hand side of the paper is today's date. Starting from your birthday, which will probably be a neutral spiritual experience for you, and so sit on the horizontal line, draw another line which represents your spiritual journey. High points will be near the top of the page and low points towards the bottom. The line will finish on the right hand edge, high up if your spiritual life is going well at the moment and lower down if you are finding it more difficult.
You can annotate the line by writing particular events beside it, including the date (maybe approximate) when you know that you made a commitment to follow God. This might be explicit if you prayed a prayer, or a more implicit matter of knowing that the faith in which you were brought up you now owned for yourself.
If you find that you have not made a commitment to God, then you might like to read this sheet, which explains how to do that.
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