The greatest gift that we can ever receive is the gift of
salvation. We are all sinners, but
Christ died on the cross to take away all our sins. Once we are saved, we can
never lose this wonderful gift. There
are some that still teach that we can lose our salvation, but this is not the
case with eternal life. We will deal
more about this topic later. Satan, who
is against everything that God is for, does all he can to get the Christian to
doubt his salvation. He tries several
different tactics to bring this doubt into our minds: he first plants doubt or
unbelief in our thoughts, then he also tries to make us think we count not be
saved because of some past or present sin in our lives, and finally he tries to
make us think that we said or did something wrong when we got saved. If you are having doubts about your
salvation, go back to a time or place when you trusted Christ as your Saviour. If you do not have a time or place, then you
might not really be saved. Some people
remember everything about when they trusted Christ and others do not. They know in their hearts that they have
trusted Christ, but they can’t remember the details about what had happened. It
all comes down to what are you doing with Christ right now and what are you
trusting in to get you to heaven. There is not a certain sinner’s prayer that
one must say in order to get to heaven, nor is there a certain plan of action
that one must do in order to be saved. All of us must first realize that we are sinners in the sight of God,
and that we need a perfect Saviour to save us from our sins. We must turn from our sins and turn to the
Lord Jesus Christ. Once this takes
place, we are now saved and in the family of God. Don’t let the devil trick you
to believe that you are not really saved and not on your way to heaven.
Dr. Ken Scoggins
