How About Your Heart?

“And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart condemns us not, then have we confidence toward God.”
(I John 3:19-21)

Good works do not bring salvation; they are the result of salvation. We go to the Bible to find assurance in the promises He has made to us. However, good deeds, such as helping others assure our hearts before Him.

I think of Simon Peter who boasted that if everyone else denied the Lord, he would not. When he denied the Lord on the night before the cross he went out and wept bitterly. I have been there. Perhaps you have, also. We might even question our salvation because of that or some other sin. But God is greater than our feelings of lostness over our failures and knows what He promised, even eternal life. (I John 2:25)

What joy are those days when we have confidence toward God, assured that He is holding us, and His promises in the Word of God are standing firm.