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 You Can Have an Overwhelming Assurance of Salvation  

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand (John 10:28–29, NLT). 

Sometimes I don’t feel an overwhelming assurance of salvation. Feelings are not a reliable guide to spiritual reality.  God knows how untrustworthy our feelings are. That’s why many time  in the Bible He describes what I can only call an “overwhelming assurance of salvation.”  Look at Jesus’ promise in John 10:27–31.  

Jesus seals it with the identity of the Father and of the Son. There is nothing in the universe that can take away the eternal life that Christ has given you.  These words are absolute. If you listen to the voice of Jesus and follow Him, you have eternal life, and you will never live in a Christ-less eternity. 

The great people of the Bible all went through dark and difficult times. Elijah, Isaiah, and John the Baptist all felt in different ways that their connection with God was gone, that they had been abandoned, and that they were failures. 

We must break the connection in our minds between our feelings and our salvation. Our assurance depends on God’s incredible, generous gift alone. Do you believe that Jesus loves you just the same every day no matter your actions?  You cannot make yourself worthy or unworthy of His love.  Your salvation depends on God’s incredibly generous gift alone.