Well, I’m not a Calvinist so I’m not hard and fast on the elected select elite stuff. I’m born again and believe we can be saved through faith in Him. I asked Him to come into my life almost 39 years ago, when I was around my 30th birthday. It’s been one heck of a ride. I’ve had to repent of a lot of stuff but I know I’ve been forgiven. I still have to repent of things I do every day that don’t please Him but I’m still in His grace. I was very angry, sometimes hateful because of the alcoholism in my marriage. It took a long time to work through that and sometimes it still rears its ugly head, but throughout it all, He has brought me through sickness and suffering, divorce, surgeries,deaths of loved ones, disappointments with my children and their trials and tribulations, and a whole lot of other stuff.
God’s grace is always with you when you have Christ in your life. You don’t have to wonder if you’ll make it to heaven.
Mary, the verses I posted prove, not just indicate, that one cannot be assured of Salvation.
If we could be assured, then a) we would not have to be Judged, and b) we could then just coast along and do whatever our whims dictate.
I am very happy that you are not of the Calvinist persuasion, which I regard as totally evil and an encroachment by satan into Christianity in order to siphon off souls. Calvinism is based partially upon surety. These verses, indeed the bulk of the Gospels, should easily dispel that evil concept.