THE TRUE FACTS OF MY OWN CONVERSION - PART 2 - Herbert W Armstrong - May 1977

Herbert W Armstrong

Continuing from the April number, "Conversion: Sudden Experience or Lifelong Process?" Nearly everyone is mixed up on this matter of personal salvation. It's made plain in this article. At age 16 I became filled with AMBITION. I was on my first summer job away from home. My employer put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Herbert, you're going to make a great success in the world. You have unusual talents and abilities- if you'll just put them to work. I have great confidence in you. It will mean continuous study all your life, hard work, diligence but you've got it in you, and I know you'll make it." True or not, I believed him. I was fired with ambition- and ambition is the DESIRE, plus the willpower to DRIVE oneself on to accomplishment. This also automatically generated within me great SELF CONFIDENCE. I KNEW I could! I was DETERMINED I WOULD! Now wasn't this a fine thing to arouse in a boy of l6? Wasn't it a fine way for a boy to start out in life? We shall see! - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library