SALVATION. . . ASSURED!
“Blessed assurance, Jesus is Mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine!”
The wonderful words of this song have been on the lips of nearly all of us many
times. However, I wonder if what the song says is truly an expression of our
hearts.
Are we “rejoicing always” because we are assured eternal life?
By looking at the New Testament, it is clear that God wants us to have the
confident, assured attitude. He does not want us to live in constant fear and
insecurity. We ought to experience daily the joys of salvation.
Paul said that hard times didn’t bother him because, “I know whom I have
believed and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to
him until that day” -- II Timothy 1:12.
Paul had a secure feeling about his relationship with God. Yet this is
the man who persecuted the church, killedChristians, called himself
the chief of sinners, a blasphemer, persecutor and
violent aggressor -- Acts 8:1-2; I Timothy 1:13-15. If Paul had done so many
ungodly things, and could still say confidently, “I’m saved,” then shouldn’t we
be able to do the same?
God doesn't expect perfection from any of us. He does expect (and rightly
so) that we try to obey Him. One who continually does wrong is not trying. But
the one who desires to do right, and is always trying to do right (that is,
obeying God’s Word), that one has a loving and merciful God caring for him
Exodus 34:6-7.
John wrote: “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of
the Son of God, in order that you many known that you have eternal life”
I John 5:13. John says you can “know” you have salvation. It was meant to be
that way. :angel:
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