How secure are you in your faith? How secure are you in your belief in Jesus that when you think about your own death, you don’t doubt that you will be going to heaven? I was listening to a teaching that Francis Chan did this week at the church of a friend of his, where he was there in support of his friend that was suffering from the death of his son to suicide.
Maybe I’m “two”, but I tend to believe what I am told. When I was in high school I was voted “most gullible” because I would believe/trust anything that someone would tell me. It is a certain innocence I guess, or belief in the good of people…I’m not sure, but I tend to believe what I am told. As it relates to people that can be both a good and a bad thing, depending on the person that you are talking about. But when it comes to Jesus and believing what I learned about Him, I know it is a good thing. To believe and not question. Not that I have not ever questioned…I have, but when He says that He forgives me, I believe Him. The only thing that has gotten in the way of that is me holding myself to my own standards and not measuring up, and not forgiving myself.
I feel confident that I will be with Jesus in heaven when I die BUT that is NOT based on ANYTHING that I have ever done or will ever do. It is ONLY because of what He did. I know that my heart is called to Him. I know that I mess up from time to time…I mess up A LOT, but my salvation isn’t based on me. It is based in Jesus. There is nothing that I ever did to earn it in the first place…it was simply a GIFT. And God will never stop loving me. THAT is based on HIS character NOT on the condition of my heart. I feel prideful saying that I know I will be in heaven when I die, but at the same time it is NOT a pride based thing! It is an assurance.
God is such a relentless lover of His children…whether by bloodline or by adoption He continues to pursue us regardless of our sin. He knows our hearts and when our hearts are called to Him, He is there over and over again, waiting for us to turn back to Him.
Scripture says:
But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that person ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:6-8
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10
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