I remember distinctly a time when I wondered about my salvation...I didn't know if I was saved or not...I knew I had done the right things, said the words, felt in my heart that is was true, believed what the Word said...but there was still doubt playing around in my mind...Satan's ploy...
I was reading through the two books written to the Corinthians...it for my mind set at the time...and came upon these verses, particularly verse 9...
1 Corinthians 2:9-16 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him— these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them?
In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.
This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.
The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.
The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
It was like heaven opened up and God reached into my soul. The Holy Spirit spoke into my heart...I was saved...there was no more doubts ...he has prepared, out of love, things that only He can do...
I was in tears of joy and thankfulness for those words of affirmation and assurance as only He knew my floundering and doubts and only He could answer in truth...and speak deeply into my life...
Thank YOU that You speak into the depths of our being...individually meeting the needs of our being....
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