I always went to church, Christian schools, prayed prayers, even got baptized. But, there was no real relationship between me and God because of my sin... I was living in it... relying on myself for salvation ("good' works") among other things. But God has taught me so much since I have been in college and I now realize that I was not saved before. God saved me, even when I hated His ways and continuously disobeyed Him. All this even after hearing and reading the Bible... outwardly hearing the Truth. I made a mockery of it by the way that I lived. And yet, GOD showed HIS mercy by HIM saving me.
So now... it is time to die to myself and follow Christ. I am not close to perfection at all. But Christ took my sins in His body on the cross and took the full and just wrath of God to display HIS great mercy.
GOD redeemed this sinner.