If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new —2 Corinthians 5:17
It is sad to consider that many believe that you can’t know if you are saved. Or worse, that you are never really saved. Some believe that you can know that you will go to heaven if you die today; but the same might not be true tomorrow, next week or next year.
But we can know, we can be sure. When we become His, things are different. The work of salvation means that in your real life things are dramatically changed. You no longer look at things in the same way. Your desires are new and the old things have lost their power to attract you. One of the tests for determining if the work of salvation in your life is genuine is— has God changed the things that really matter to you? If you still yearn for the old things, it is absurd to talk about being born from above— you are deceiving yourself. If you are born again, the Spirit of God makes the change very evident in your real life and thought. And when a crisis comes, you are the most amazed person on earth at the wonderful difference there is in you. There is no possibility of imagining that you did it. It is this complete and amazing change that is the very evidence that you are saved.
The truth of this hit me many years ago when the battle for life was going on in Louisiana legislature. Proponents of Life and those for Choice gathered at the legislature. There were signs for each side and some shouting and chanting. At one point, we pro-lifers lay face down on the ground and began to pray. A great quiet fell over the grounds of the capital. Even the pro-choicers fell into quiet respect for the moment. The pro-lifers were Christian. Our ideas and desires had not always been that way; they were a function of our own New Life.
Everything is changed. Thank you Jesus.
Nick
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