THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  (Romans 10:9 NKJV)

 Salvation is a great word. It is conjugated in three tenses:

The Past Tense. We were saved at the moment when we first obeyed the gospel. This salvation is a distinct and definite matter, which is ours at the moment we exercise simple obedient faith in Jesus. "Being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him" (Romans 5:9).

The Present Tense. "To us who are being saved, Christ is the power of God," such is the accurate rendering of 1 Corinthians 1:18. We are being saved perpetually from the love and power of sin. The disinfectant of Christ's presence is ever warding off the germs of deadly temptation. The mighty arm of the divine keeper is always holding the door against the attempts of the adversary. The water is always flowing over the eye to remove the tiny grit or mote that may offend. "We are being saved by His life" (Romans 5:10)

The Future Tense. We are being kept by the power of God unto a salvation which waits to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1). Salvation is a great word. It includes the forgiveness that remembers our sin no more; deliverance from the curse and penalty of our evil ways; emancipation from the chains of evil habits; the growing conformity of the soul to the image of Christ, and the final resurrection of the body in spiritual beauty and energy, to be for ever the companion and vehicle of the redeemed spirit.

PRAYER

Oh Holy Father, we pray You to give us the assurance of being the children of God, Your sons and daughters, and so prepare us for the glory to be revealed to us, and for that great hour when the whole creation, which now groans and travails in pain, shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.  In Jesus’ name I pray, AMEN.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #98:
I have cancelled all your sin and made you alive in Jesus Christ.

Colossians 2:13-14 (WEB)
13 You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh.
He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us;
and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;