Record of

Ernest Boggs Sr.   

Coming to know Jesus Christ as Savior

It is always interesting to hear how people come to know Jesus Christ as their personal savior.

One of the beautiful things about being saved is, there is a first hand experience of every person coming to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.

I, as many other people have always had a respect for the Creator of this world we live in. I have from childhood known there was more to life than just a short few years here on earth.

As a young man I become troubled that there was so much hurt, suffering, people being cruel to others for different reasons such as the language they spoke or did not speak, the different color of their skin and the many cruel things that are even done to others in the name of religion.

I felt there was something very wrong and I was determined to find out for my self some answers to the questions I had about this life and if there was any life after I left this world.

I had a great respect for other people and I had a wondering in my heart about the book people called the Bible.

One day I decided that since I did not know very much  about the Bible that I was going to read it one time for myself. If I did not like what it said I would then leave it along, however if I liked what it said I would then know why I believed what it said.

As a child, I ask, who am I? What am I doing here on earth? and where am I going when I leave this world?

I needed to know the answer for these questions so I could get on with my life and do something worth while with the few years I have to live here.

I had spent three years in the US Marine Corp and had seen how people in other parts of the world lived, making me thankful to be an American. I was discharge a Sergeant upon leaving the Marine Corp. .believing there was a good life waiting for me in the future.

Returning home I married my childhood sweet heart that is still my sweet heart 44 years later. She was a saved young girl that loved the Lord and with his grace she love me.

After reading the Bible I found I liked what I was reading and it showed me who I was, where I come from and it gave me an option of two places where I could spend eternity.

After several years of searching for answers, in March of 1964 at 4:00 AM in the morning setting at my dining room table in Grand Blanc, Michigan I found what the Bible was talking about in John 3:8 when Jesus said; you must be born again. It was telling me I needed another birth other than the one I had received when I come into this world by my mother birthing me. There is a physical birth and there is a spiritual birth.

Your physical birth gives you the things you need  to live here on earth and your spiritual birth gives you the things you need to live in the place the Bible calls the kingdom of God.

You may be searching for some answers as I was. If you are serious about how you stand with your Creator you can find the answers to life in His book of instructions that we call the Bible. I discovered that the empty feeling I had inside me was due to Christ not living in me.

When God created man he made a place for all of our body parts  Eye sockets for our eyes, adores and vanes for our blood to flow in, a heart to pump our blood throughout our body, lungs for the oxygen we need and a soul for his Spirit to live inside of our body.

The Bible tells us in Romans 10:13; whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You do this and you will find the real answers of  life's questions as I have.

You will never regret trusting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.