What Change When One Becomes A Christian

There will be some change when one become a Christian. There may be immediate changes and there are also slow changes. I remember when I became a Christian in Secondary 3, I lose my fear of exams. I no longer worried about any coming exam.

Water Came Out Of The Rock Despite Disobedience

There was no water for the community, so they assembled against Moses and Aaron. The people quarrelled with Moses and said, "If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord. Why have you brought the Lord's assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It's not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!"
Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them. The Lord spoke to Moses, "Take the staff and assemble the community. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will yield its water. You will bring out water for them from the rock and provide drink for the community and their livestock."
So Moses took the staff from the Lord's presence just as he had commanded him. Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, "Listen, you rebels! Must we bring water out of this rock for you?" Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that abundant water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.
But the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me to demonstrate my holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land I have given them." (Numbers 20:8-12 CSV)

God had asked Moses to speak to the rock but Moses struck the rock twice. Please take note of two things:

1. God's severity toward Moses and he was punished for striking the rock twice;
2. God's kindness to the Israelites and brought water out of the rock despite their unbelief.

Thus the mercy (which is injustice) of God often confuse people when their evil deeds bring prosperity instead of punishment.

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. (Ecclesiastes 8:11 ESV)

Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. (Romans 11:22 ESV)

The Lord is not slow to fulfil his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. (2 Peter 3:9 ESV)

Universally Acceptable Behaviours

You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner - those who are not your offspring. (Genesis 17:11-12 NIV)

On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised. (Leviticus 12:3 NIV)

Imagine there is a country where it is legally mandatory to blind every citizen in the right eye so that they can only have a left eyed view. If anyone have two eyes in this country, it would be considered as illegal and injustice to the rest of the citizens. All citizens are taught this from young and accept this a true and right. But to the rest of the world, this country has a cruel practice.

The Jews circumcised their baby boys on the eighth day. The boys are not given an option to reject and every Jew is taught that this is true and right. This article "Can the religious beliefs of parents justify the nonconsensual cutting of their child's genitals? | Practical Ethics" believed that circumcision of male babies is not right. Is this a cruel practice?

So who decides what is a cruel practice? Where is the line drawn? Who decides what is universally accepted? Only the creator and owner of the world has the right to decide. Thus, if you think you have the right, please prove that you have created the world and owned it.

Then there are others who think that "man is the measure of all things (Protagoras)" and there may be no God. So they think it can be decided by reason, science, consensus and democracy. Unfortunately, truth cannot be decide by democracy and even if 100% of the world voted that 1+1=3, it will still not be true. So finally it will be decided by the size of the military and political influence.

In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit. (Judges 21:23 NIV)

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. (Romans 1:21-23 NIV)