Blessed and Assured
I was awakened with the song “Blessed Assurance” on my mind and for several days it lingered. I walked around humming the words while moving through all my daily tasks. But one morning when the song came to me, I began to pray, and the words “blessed” and “assured” grabbed my heart. God had been sending me this song for days and I did not get what He was telling me. In prayer, I finally got it!
I am blessed and I have assurance that Jesus is mine and I am His! I started to repeat the words “blessed and assured, blessed and assured”. The more I repeated them the more God began to open my spiritual mind to see with confidence who I am in Him! When we accept Christ as our personal savior, we have been circumcised, meaning the old person was cut away and died with Christ and we rose anew with Him! That is truly good news!
“In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ” (Colossians 2:11).
When God had Noah build the ark, He put him and his whole family inside. Just like in baptism, they were enveloped in Christ. God closed the door when they walked in, and all their past was gone - they were starting anew! There was absolutely nothing they could do to make themselves more saved from the flood once they stepped into the ark. None of their works would make them any more saved than they already were. It is the same for us! Once we accept Jesus Christ, we are SAVED. Period! We can’t get any more saved! There are no works that will get us more points with Christ. This was already done before we entered to the earth!
Scripture says in 1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit…” It was all done by Jesus Christ on the cross. Once saved, we have the blessed assurance, the covenant promise, that we belong to Christ Jesus and we are His. Amen!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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