My almost ten year old
Granddaughter confessed to me that sometimes she doubts her salvation.
It was interesting to
note that on that very same day a minister of the Gospel of twenty five years
experience made the same confession. I attempted to encourage them both with
the same statement. I never met an unbeliever who had doubts. The lost seem to
either know that they are lost and just don't care. Or they are confident
that they are just fine in their standing with God.
Jesus cried, ”My God
why hast thou forsaken me. But no believer in Jesus has to ask such a
question.
On those occasions
when I have felt that God had forsaken me, I never had to ask for a reason. I
always am aware of several reasons: my thought life, my attitude, my emotions,
my actions.
A favorite expression
of my father was, "Beat your children every day. If you don't know why,
they do!"
We present to the Lord
a plethora of reasons why we should be forsaken. There is only one reason why
He doesn't. Because Jesus was forsaken for us.
Mitch Triestman
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