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Time seemed to stand still as I gazed around me in wonder-soaking in the beauty of this place. After a while, I came into an open area and I stopped walking. The air was crisp and dry, piercing to inhale. I went into a deeply wooded area, feeling vulnerable and awed by cold, moonlit beauty. One night I found myself leaving the warmth of our cozy chalet to walk alone in the snowy mountains. Later, when I was alone, I asked Him to forgive all my sins and to be my Savior-God. Her second question was: “What can you not forgive yourself for?” This question brought me face-to-face with my sinfulness, and immediately I understood my need for Jesus-to save me from my many sins. I thought that knowing God might be enough. Before I even had time to sit down, she asked her first question: “Are you a Christian?” I answered that I wasn’t sure I wanted to be a Christian, but I didn’t really understand why I needed Jesus. I went into the room where she was waiting, and she told me to close the door. Shortly after I settled into the home I shared with other students, I met a gifted counselor who had come from the Swiss branch of L’Abri to talk with some of us. Instead of “God’s glorious creation” transitioning into her mystical moonlight conversion, now it’s her new conversion account that transitions into her considerably toned down walk in the moonlight. īut after nine years of publishing the mystical conversion account above, this original account has been suddenly replaced by a different, more traditional conversion account that Young now claims to have had prior to her moonlight walk. This was a relationship with the Creator of the universe.1.
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This was far more than the intellectual answers for which I’d been searching. As I pondered this brief communication, I realized it was the response of a converted heart at that moment I knew I belonged to Him.
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I became aware of a lovely Presence, and my involuntary response was to whisper, “Sweet Jesus.” This utterance was totally uncharacteristic of me, and I was shocked to hear myself speaking so tenderly to Jesus. Suddenly I felt as if a warm mist enveloped me. Though the quest that had taken me there was a search for truth, it was God’s glorious creation that helped me open my heart to Him. Young wrote: It was the intellectual integrity of Francis Schaeffer’s teaching that had drawn me to that pristine place. Note how Young clearly transitions right from “it was God’s glorious creation that helped me open my heart to Him” into her walk in the “snowy mountains” with its “cold moonlit beauty.” It is a continuous flow from one paragraph to the next. In the original introduction to Jesus Calling, Sarah Young described how it was a walk in “God’s glorious creation” that led to her mystical moonlight conversion-that her “heart” was “converted” to “Jesus” when she “felt” “enveloped” by the “warm mist” of His “Presence.” Her account is reminiscent of how many of us fell prey to deceptive spiritual experiences rather than heeding warnings from the Word of God about “another Jesus,” “another gospel,” and “another spirit.” (2 Corinthians 11:4 Galatians 1:6-7 1 Timothy 4:1).