One Question to Ask When You Doubt Your Salvation

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Do you ever doubt your salvation? God has done so much in my life you would think I would have been past doubting long ago! A few years ago during one of those times of questioning, God showed me one question to ask when you doubt your salvation.

I shared this with the ladies and girls in our church recently, and I wanted to share it as a part of the 30 Things I Want My Teens to Remember series. Doubting your salvation at times is a normal part of the Christian life, but we can’t stay there. Doubt takes away our peace and our confidence to share the gospel with others.

Text of Mark 5:34- your faith has made you well

I accepted Jesus as my Savior as a young child. Over the years I have struggled with doubt. A while back, I read the book Stop Asking Jesus in Your Heart. The main point of the book is to look at your life in the present and ask, “Am I living in repentance and faith now?”

My husband constantly reminds our church family that walking an aisle and saying a prayer is not what saves us. Only faith in Jesus’s finished work on the cross in our place saves us.

Although we are saved and justified before God the moment we repent of our sins and put our faith in Jesus, living in repentance and faith is an ongoing, vital part of the Christian life.

God does not want us to live in doubt, but scripture does calls us to examine ourselves (1 Corinthians 11:28 and 2 Corinthians 13:5) and to work out our salvation with “fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12-14).

God called me at a young age, and though I cannot say for sure that I understood everything then, I am living in repentance of sins and faith in Jesus today. What about you?

When you begin to question and doubt your salvation, rather than worrying so much about your initial conversion experience, look at your life now. Those who trust in Jesus live in repentance and faith—not in perfection, but with the desire to live for Christ, confess and receive forgiveness regularly, and grow in faith, trusting God’s ways are best even when we don’t understand.

If you have no conviction of sin that leads to repentance, nor a desire to live with complete trust in Jesus, something is wrong. Search your heart, ask God to show you. Begin living in repentance and faith, then anytime you doubt your salvation, look for those things in your heart and life.

I want my teens to remember to live in repentance and faith.

Want to know more about how to be saved (become a Christian, accept Jesus)? Read Know Jesus, Share Jesus or What is the Gospel Anyway?

May God give you His peace that passes understanding and confidence in your relationship with Him through Jesus.

Remember, dear child of God, Scripture says we can know we have eternal life through Jesus.