I like that explanation. It's a good start.
But here's a good way I would test that. Does such relationship feel and/or lead to anything in your life that would only come from that and not nothing else?
The first sense in coming to Christ is probably the sense of peace towards God. The night I called
"Lord Jesus, take me home. I'm tired Jesus. Take me" I felt like a flushed toilet. I mean crud, filth, dirt, and stench which had accumated in my heart, memory and conscience suddenly FLUSHED away. I felt as a ton of weight rolled off of me.
I had been so used to walking around with this weight on my coscience that I figured it was just part of life. But much was subconscious also. But when I came to Jesus calling on Him as God's Spirit or love and mercy flooded in the sludge of my sins and offenses was flushed OUT.
The word confirms my experience when Jesus told the thirsty crowd to come unto Him and drink.
Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water.
But this He said concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed into Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 6:37-39)
Out of one's human spirit, one's innermost being, flows the Person of the Holy Spirit - refreshing, quenching, supplying and miraculously answering to the calling on the name of the Lord Jesus. "Rivers of LIVING water" is how Jesus discribed the Spirit.
But each case of a sinner coming to Jesus is also unique. He knows in infallible detail each of our situations. He is the Great Physician and the Friend of Sinners. He knows our heart and the healing art. No one can do an "inside job" healing like Jesus Christ can.
For instance, if the day I become a believer, all of my stress goes away,
I'll address these one by one.
I would say rather than all stress went away it was like this -
A man is up to his neck in quicksand. He feels overwhelmed and about to slip under the mud.
But a mighty HAND suddenly grasps his hand. And he instantly KNOWS - "It will be alright. Someone is holding me. I can feel His faithfulness, His power, His strengtth, His undying love."
No, ALL my problems did not go away. But I knew I was on solid ground and all would be alright. Peace. God is now in control.
The One who walks upon the waves has my hand, I am saved from my own stubborn way.
The idea of winning loads of materials goodies to too superfiscial to speak to.
Christ is not the great ATM in the sky. I have experienced outward blessings for sure.
But Jesus is into changing hearts from the inside.