"Is it simple? I don't think you can simply say that you have, you have to actually do it, and to do it, you have know who Jesus is, what he taught. I would say that trusting Jesus and giving your life to him is a pursuit, a journey, so I can't answer yay or nay but rather, that it is my choosen path."

I agree with you my brother Ricardo. However I think that we can agree that the day we
first trusted Jesus Christ as Lord and savior of our lives that we didn't know
as much as we know, or think we know now.

I made that decision when I was nine years old and I remember it like it was
yesterday. It was the happiest day of my life. I truly knew in my heart that I was
born again and that Jesus Christ set me free from my bondage. It was
my decision and no one made it for me. I knew exactly what I was doing.
Since then, I've had many ups and downs in my walk with Christ. There have been many times
that my faith failed me and times when I walked away. The spirit of Christ
did not let me go in my moments of weakness. He has been there for me
and still directs my path. I really wish that each day, I could recieve the
kingdom as a Child, but I get in my own way sometimes. It's amazing to me
because the Holy spirit want us to grow and mature and to teach us, but at the same time
wants us to remain childlike and to come back to our first love and day of salvation.

Mark 10:15
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

There is something special about trusting Christ with Childlike faith. That is the place
where our "learning and knowledge" cannot get in the way. It's the most basic place of salvation
Where all we need to do is accept that gift of and truth of salvation as a Child.
The much more complicated road comes when we grow into "adolescence".
Nevertheless, that is a road that must be traveled, and we only need to look to
ourselves as to why the relationship can become complicated.

You are right though, that act of believing is an action. We all know what we believe in our
own hearts. The journey comes when we choose to step out of our youth into our walk with
Christ. There are many peaks and valleys as we travel, but Christ remains constant.

The walk is definitely our choice:

John 6:
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. 67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

Peace and Blessings

Oswald Chambers thoughts on this subject.

September 28th.

THE "GO" OF UNCONDITIONAL IDENTIFICATION

"One thing thou lackest: . . come, take up the cross, and follow Me." Mark 10:21

The rich young ruler had the master passion to be perfect. When he saw Jesus Christ, he wanted to be like Him. Our Lord never puts personal holiness to the fore when He calls a disciple; He puts absolute annihilation of my right to myself and identification with Himself - a relationship with Himself in which there is no other relationship. Luke 14:26 has nothing to do with salvation or sanctification, but with unconditional identification with Jesus Christ. Very few of us know the absolute "go" of abandonment to Jesus.

"Then Jesus beholding him loved him." The look of Jesus will mean a heart broken for ever from allegiance to any other person or thing. Has Jesus ever looked at you? The look of Jesus transforms and transfixes. Where you are "soft" with God is where the Lord has looked at you. If you are hard and vindictive, insistent on your own way, certain that the other person is more likely to be in the wrong than you are, it is an indication that there are whole tracts of your nature that have never been transformed by His gaze.

"One thing thou lackest . . ." The only "good thing" from Jesus Christ's point of view is union with Himself and nothing in between.

"Sell whatsoever thou hast . ." I must reduce myself until I am a mere conscious man, I must fundamentally renounce possessions of all kinds, not to save my soul (only one thing saves a man - absolute reliance upon Jesus Christ) - but in order to follow Jesus. "Come, and follow Me." And the road is the way He went.