Getting "Saved"

"People use to term "get saved" a lot. But what do you believe you are saved from? Do you believe there is a difference in being saved and being born again?"

This question was asked recently on the forum I frequent (Revolutionnyc)

I used to think that I was saved from hell, this was fire insurance for the hereafter, something just in case. I was living a very miserable life and leaving the church altogether after awhile seeing the way "even sinners behave this way" that the Christians treat each other.

Now I believe something amazing....


I am saved not in the after life but the here and now. I feel the after life is a bonus to the life that God has now shown to me.

I am saved from the self hate, life I was living.

I am saved from the resentments of life I felt I feel a warm, bracing love surrounding me through all things God whispering "I got you, be calm, I got this, I love you, you will be OK."
I feel this love and now I am push to serve my fellow man, where he is at not where he needs to be.
I want other to feel the joy that I feel. (this being said people around me don't want to listen to the Good News and I do get frustrated on where God wants me to be)

I believe others will be shown the love of God either before they die or after they die. I choose to believe God has no limits .... time and death can't keep him from his children whom he loves unconditionally.

People will spend time in hell until they come to believe that all people can be shown the grace of God. To your left will be the person that caused you the most harm and to the rights will be the person that you hurt them most at the feast Jesus has prepared.