Blessed Assurance
Assurance of salvation and a saving interest in our Lord Jesus is not a feeling cultivated by thinking good thoughts and doing good deeds. Paul calls it "full assurance of faith" (Hebrews 10:22). It has to do with faith, with believing God! Assurance is born of confidence in the Father as our covenant God; "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him" (Job 13:15). Assurance is born of confidence in the Son as our just God and Saviour; "By His stripes we are healed" (Isaiah 53:5). Assurance is born of confidence in His promises; Abraham was fully persuaded that what God had promised, “He was able also to perform" (Romans 4:21). So your assurance of redemption is not enhanced by the more you work, but by the more you trust and rest in Him. "Let us labor therefore to enter into THAT REST" (Hebrews 4:11). - Gospel report by preacher Henry Mahan