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I disagree with you. Because God touches peoples lives in way you don't understand. Before I had faith in God I was a completely different person and travelled down a destructive path in life. One day turned that around when I physically felt him and knew he was real. Now I am one of the most successful people from my high school class.
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How did you know he was real? I think my main problem with your explanation is that you give God the credit for cleaning up your act. However, did God force you to act that way? No. You cleaned up your act because you chose to. You recognized your freedom to change your life and you changed it by your will. You didn't need God to do that. You needed self-esteem and self-realization.
Secondly, telling me that "God touches people in ways your wouldn't understand" isn't a good argument. From that sentence you even assume I can't understand it. Why bring it to the conversation?
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Oh and there is many many examples of people who have had a destructive life of drug and alcohol abuse and have had a life changing moment completely reversing their bad habits and making their life far more meaningful.
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Their life may be more meaningful in the eyes of a Christian. However, giving God the credit for your actions deprives your life of meaning in itself. You choose to sacrifice the search for meaning by negating your mind. You haven't found it. You chose to recognize meaning in God. Is it really any more meaningful than selfish happiness?