Don’t doubt it

Good morning everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Salvation: past, present, and future”

Our Bible verse for today: “In him you also were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and when you believed.” Ephesians 1:13 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “Don’t doubt it”

We humans can be fickle, double-minded, doubtful, and easily sidetracked. We often forget things we once knew, doubt things we once believed to be true, and become untethered from the secure anchor of our faith. That can even be true of something so important and so foundational as salvation. Am I saved? Was I ever really saved? Am I still saved? Those are questions and doubts wrestled with by many Christians.

I can’t count the number of times over my decades of ministry that a professing Christian suddenly began to wonder if his or her profession of faith had been real and therefore whether or not he or she was ever really saved. Or, if perhaps they have lost their salvation because of some new (and what they consider to be grievous) sin.

I find it interesting that in Ephesians 1:13 the Apostle Paul thought it necessary to remind the Ephesians Christians about their salvation. He was writing to professing Christians – a whole church full of them (perhaps even an entire faith community spread over an entire region and encompassing multiple churches). He just threw this blanket statement out there reminding all of us about the reality of our salvation if we have placed our faith in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins.

The fact is that we need to be reminded frequently about the basic truths of the Christian faith. We need to circle back often to the basic foundational truths of our faith and relearn them from time-to-time, because we tend to forget them or we begin to doubt them. That’s why God repeats those truths in so many different places in the Bible. It’s also why we preachers and teachers of God’s Word have to keep reteaching things we know our people have already been taught and which they do already know. That’s especially true regarding the basics of salvation. We need to keep relearning these truths so we don’t forget; so we will not doubt; and so we will be able to explain it to others.

Therefore, for the month of February we will prayerfully and devotionally relearn what we already know to be true – that we have been saved, we are saved, and we will continue to be saved. It is salvation past, present, and future.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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