All a man's ways seem right to him, but the Lord weighs the heart. Proverbs 21:2

I did not have a spiritual reason for leaving the church I had gone to since second grade and going to the church next door. No, my reasons for doing this were based solely on attractions to some girls who attended there. Not a particularly good reason in a heavenly sense, but God met me there, regardless. The church next door preached accepting the Lord, and baptism, not surprising for a Baptist church. This was something the church I had come from did not press...at least, I did not hear that in their message. I DID hear it at "the Church Next Door" loud and clear. I discovered if I wanted to work in the nursery with the babies, I had to be a baptized Christian, so I began to proceed with my spiritual training. Not for God, not even for myself, but for the attentions of those girls, and to babysit the babies I adored. I accepted the Lord. I was baptized. And I am not sure how seriously I took it. It was a rite in that church. A rite that I participated in. But Someone DID take it seriously. God did. It was after this that I began to get caught stealing. It was after this that my whole world fell apart. I had come to the Lord on MY terms and He had taken me up on HIS. Because when my world fell apart because of my parent's sin and my own, He was there to catch me. Years later, I would be baptized again because I did not feel like I had been baptized for Godly reasons. But God showed me that the first baptism had been a right baptism. That is when my relationship with Him began. What had seemed right to me at 14, though for every wrong reason had been acceptable to the Lord...because He weighed my heart and knew I needed HIM.