The enemy would always love to cause us to doubt.
What a sure way to rope someone into legalism and works.
That was we can look back to what we’ve done and feel better about ourselves.
I don’t think there’s a person around who hasn’t at some time or another examined themselves and wondered if they are *really* saved.
When I was going through that, some thoughts occurred to me and one was that if I was that concerned about it, then I was. When I wasn’t saved, I knew it and while it bothered me, it didn’t bother me enough to change.
Another is that if I had to make the decision to accept Christ (for lack of a better term) again, would I? To me that is the ONLY logical move anyone could ever make in their lives. And yet, when I wasn’t saved, it made no sense to me at all.
And the last is that the changes that I have seen in my life since the time I turned my life over to Christ, could not in any way be attributed to my own efforts. I did not and still do not have it in me to make the changes I have seen.
A few years ago I had an encounter with God that could best be described as being filled with the Holy Spirit. It made as profound change in me as being saved did. I was IMMEDIATELY delivered from a whole bunch of things that I had been struggling with for years. Suddenly, they were no longer an issue. Literally overnight.
FWIW, I had always heard about that kind of experience and for years wanted one and sought for it. It happened without me having the least idea it was coming until it happened so it wasn’t a matter of me doing the right things and manipulating God into doing it (as some churches seem to teach). I kind of stumbled into it. Rather, it happened to me.