Heart of Gratitude (1)

‎"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, (5) who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (IPet.1:3-5)
By the redemption through Christ,
we were rescued from the dominion of sin and satan (Col.1:13);
we became the very children of God (Gal3:26);
we became partakers of God's very life and nature (2Pet.1:4);
we became heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Rom.8:17);
God in His power and majesty dwells in us(1Cor.3:16);
in summary we have received ALL things! (1Cor.3:21) -this is the reason the believer must always maintain a heart of gratitude in all things.
I Cor.1-26-28 is most relevant here: "(26)For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. (27) But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; (28) and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are.
Now, the weak is made strong, the sick is made whole, the sin-soiled children of Adam have become the righteous sons of the Holy God all by grace . I admonish you therefore to give Him thanks ALWAYS with a GRATEFUL HEART! Blessed?

Assurance of Salvation

"The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Rom.8:16)
How can I be sure am saved? How can I know for sure that am a child of God? No external thing, inspite of its token of sacredness can furnish a man with the absolute and infallible proof of salvation. Activities and status such as pastoring, deaconship, and stewardship in a local assembly could at best be secoundary proof of a man's salvation.
Primarily, only two can really know if a man is saved - God and the man that's saved. God knows because He is the one that saved (ITim.2:3, IITim.4:10 ) ; the man that's saved knows he is saved because he has the witness of the Spirit in him, IJohn5:10 "He who beleives in the son of God has the witness in himself..."
Hence, he that's waiting for the rapture to be sure whether he is saved or not might end up missing the rapture, because he might not be saved afterall.
If you are born again, Bible says the witness is in you (IJohn5:10, Rom.8:16). Do you have the witness?