Jackson Browne has a song called Anything Can Happen. I don't know if he is a believer, but I would assume not. But lack of God in a person's life doesn't mean that they can't accidentally (and without even knowing) stumble on to a truth God has left for us to discover. The first two lines of Anything Can Happen are just such a truth:
Time will come when we know what happened here
Change will come in time and make it clear
Our whole life, and for all eternity, we have been, are and will be finding out what happened at salvation. But Jackson was only mostly right since change has already come. The making clear part is true, but we are forever God's. We were already changed in an instant. As in Jeremiah, "I will blot out their sin in a single day." Our sins were removed in a single day. We were changed in a single day. And now, slowly and with God's gracious handling, what the change means is being made clear.
