How can we be sure of God’s Salvation and what is the proof of it that we have received it?

Romans 10:9-10 If declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.

To all those who believe in Christ as their savior, they have the Salvation through Christ. This is a great provision that God Almighty has provided to all those who believe in His Son Jesus Christ because none of our works are counted other than believing in heart and confessing with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God has raised Jesus Christ from the dead that are taken into account when we are being justified and are saved.

But after being justified and saved we need to see the changes in our life. The life within us will change as a consequence of our salvation. This is our great God who will help us to change from within us. First of all we will come out of that debased minds (Romans 1:18-32) that we were having before we had the salvation. 

When we are out of this debased mind, our eyes will be opened and we will be able to see those things within us that are good and bad. We can understand that how our own actions are hurting us more than anyone else.

Luke 11:35-36 Be careful, then that the light within you is not darkness. So if your body is full of light, and no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.

Once we start looking within our self with the light that God had shone on us, we will be able to remove all that is not correct and make room for other good things to be placed in their places. We will be able to replace Hatred with Love, Fear with Courage and Boldness, Selfishness with Generosity, Wickedness with Morality, Proudness with Humility, Prayerlessness with Prayerfulness, Disobedience to Parents with Obedience to Parents, etc. These all changes within us will bring great Peace of Mind that will elevate our being. We will feel more loved and cared for our own self and know the Love of God, and how much He loves us. This is the beginning of our good works through faith in Christ that we start doing good to ourselves first and then do good to our neighbors. After we know how much God loves us, we will be filled with awe and cry and weep and repent and seek His forgiveness. When we are forgiven, His Peace rests on us.

Jesus said “Love your neighbor as yourself” meaning we must be able to love ourselves first and then love others that much. When we will love ourselves more, we will be able to love others more as well. When we truly love ourselves, we will clean ourselves inside out. 

Jesus Christ says to Pharisees in Luke 11:39 “Now you Pharisees make the outside of cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

It is very much important for each one of us as Children of God to know which are unclean and bad for us. Our Holy Bible is full of verses that teach us how to live a life of Righteousness. Reading and meditating on the Word of God will definitely help us identify the grey areas of our life and the Holy Spirit will help and guide us in cleaning those areas by shining the Light of God. New Testament Bible is a great help to know about Righteousness and Unrighteousness. The Spirit of God has been poured unto the great men of God and they were able to pen it down so that we might receive His grace in abundance. 

And when we are clean from within, God is willing to pour His Spirit unto us also and use us as His vessels. Now when one is filled with His Holy Spirit he is ready to do greater things and bring glory to God.

These are the works of faith, the Good Works in us that we do when filled with Holy Spirit and it always brings glory to God and our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not we but He who is in us working these Good Works. Through His wisdom and understanding we are able to do good and bring peace into the lives of the needy. Good works will always bring peace to us and our surroundings. This peace is given by God and our Lord Jesus Christ. This Peace is the proof of the Salvation we received. 

Praise be to our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.