Assurance of Salvation

I have noticed that there are many people who seek approval.  They will seek it from literally every person they come into contact with.  Where this comes from is for another time,  however, I’d like to point out that it is convincingly clear that most of these people seek approval to avoid conflict.  Conflict is inevitable in life.  I’ve yet to meet a person who hasn’t at one time or another had to deal with conflict.


I worked for a man whose philosophy was to ignore conflict and it wait for it to go away.  My leadership suffered because I served under his authority.   His philosophy was wrong and has never been true.  Those who avoid conflict are those who are in desperate need of approval.  Ultimately, beliefs and convictions are compromised in effort to avoid conflict.


Sadly, most Christians live their lives trying to avoid conflict.  I’m referring to the conflict that is the result of their miserable relationship with Jesus.  They spend more time dodging darts of doubt than they spend in the Word (Bible).  It’s difficult trying to balance on a fence and dodge darts.


God wants His children (born again believers; John 3) to live lives with confidence and assurance.  1 John 5:11-13 explains that eternal life is provided through Jesus and that assurance accompanies the relationship.  Simply put, if you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you have life (eternal), if you do not have him as your Lord and Savior, then you do not have eternal life.


The icing on the cake is that He says in verse 13 that we can “know” we have eternal life.  We can live our lives with full assurance and knowledge of our salvation.  We need not battle this conflict as Christ followers.  Never again is there a need to compromise convictions and/or beliefs.  The conflict between our flesh and the spirit can end if only we get serious about our relationship with Jesus.