Everyone has a different experience, by the grace of God.
For some it comes as a thunderbolt of understanding. For others, it's a gradual acknowledgment that God is God overall and to Him be all the glory.
Either way, we are given new ears and new eyes and a new heart at a time of God's choosing in the manner God has ordained from before the foundation of the world. Mercifully, our Scriptural discernment of our salvation by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ is transformative, exactly as God intends it to be.
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." -- Romans 12:2
And how is our mind renewed? By the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost" -- Titus 3:5
Having experienced life from both sides, as most of us have, we can only hope you will be graced with the same confidence in Christ we have been given. It's a lot more enjoyable, gratifying and productive.
I've done that, but in the opposite order. I find my life equally enjoyable, gratifying, and productive as before.
Truly, we are all different. The spiritual experience of one is not always like the next.
God is like a Master Artist to me and He has many colors on His palette.