"Assurance Of
Faith"
Hebrews 10:22
Many people enjoy the assurance of
salvation who have never experienced the grace of God
at all. They claim peace and speak peace to their own hearts, but have no
biblical grounds for peace. They delude themselves with a false peace.
Multitudes live and die being fully persuaded that they are saved, only to wake
up in hell with astonishment, suffering the wrath of God (Matt.
Others, who truly have been saved by God's
grace have no assurance of faith in Christ. Perhaps
you are among them. You now find in your heart repentance toward God, faith in
Christ, and love for the Savior, but you have never confessed Christ as your
Lord and Savior, because you lack the assurance that your faith is real. You
have had no climatic experience that you can point to and say, "There I
began to trust Christ."
Conversion is not always a climatic
experience. Sometimes it is a gradual thing. We do not all experience grace in
the same way. The need is the same, the grace is the same, and the results are
the same; but the experience of grace differs greatly. Blind Bartimaeus
received his sight in a climatic experience (Mark
My point is this - If you now trust
Christ, if you now repent of your sins, if you now love the Lord Jesus Christ,
it does not matter when or where you began to do so. If you trust Christ, you
are born of God! You are an heir of God! You have eternal life! It is written,
"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life" (John
Don Fortner