I heard that Donald Trump is running for president.  It will be an interesting presidential election campaign!!
I suspect that many strong opinions exist about someone like Donald Trump.  He is a very public person and a person of strong opinions himself and great financial success.  I also suspect that not many of us reading these words have actually met Donald Trump.  I want us to play a little game together to illustrate a point.  Suppose that you are a person who has never met Donald Trump and you have formed some very strong opinions about what kind of person he might be.  You consider him to be arrogant, selfish, egotistical and filled with pride.  But then imagine that your car is broken down on the side of a busy freeway and Donald Trump just happens to come by.  For some reason he is by himself and not being driven around in a stretch limo and he stops and very kindly, unselfishly and humbly helps you.  Do you suppose your opinion of him would change?  Mine would and that would be a conversion of sorts.  We would be changed.  We would have a radically different view of this person than the one we had created in our minds based on what we had seen in the press.
This picture ran through my mind as I was reading about the conversion of Saul of Tarsus in Acts 9.  Think about the view of God he had built in his mind.  God was distant, cold, angry.  And then he had a personal encounter with the living Lord Jesus and he was literally knocked to the ground.  He was converted.  
Not all conversions are as dramatic as this.  But it at least must start  when the gods we have created in our own image come face to face with the living and true God revealed in His Son Jesus.
Regeneration, the new birth, being born again is solely and in the first place a work of God through the Holy Spirit.  But I suspect that because of the reality of the day to day struggle with the power of sin in the world and in our own hearts that there are daily, even moment by moment conversions that need to take place as the gods of our own making discover how weak they are in comparison to the living God of creation.