[annalex]

assurance comes after a long walk with the Lord

After a long walk. So works are not salvific but walks are? OK. It is still hope that does not cross into presumption, and nothing in your quotes indicates otherwise. Here is attitude to avoid:

11 The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican. 12 I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes towards heaven; but struck his breast, saying: O god, be merciful to me a sinner. 14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather that the other: because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.

(Luke 18)

[hosepipe]

You have a point..
Personal experience with God may not be with God at all..
But a mental construct we think is God when it isn't..

I've seen that happen.. and "they" usually end up in some cult..
Course the cult does not think it is a cult..
A mass mental construct.. but I repeat myself from earlier..

[Alamo-Girl]

The walk is sanctification, not salvation.