Assurance of Salvation

In the Christian life, we can sometimes come to a point when we think that we are beyond God's love and eternal care. The following is a beautiful Puritan prayer that provides assurance of eternal life.

I am loved with everlasting love,
clothed in eternal righteousness,

  my peace flowing like a river,

  my comforts many and large,

  my joy and triumph unutterable,

  my soul lively with a knowledge of salvation,

  my sense of justification unclouded.

I have scarce anything to pray for;

Jesus smiles upon my soul as a ray of heaven

  and my supplications are swallowed up in praise.

How sweet is the glorious doctrine of election

  when based upon thy Word

  and wrought inwardly within the soul!

I bless thee that thou wilt keep the sinner

  thou has loved,

 and hast engaged that he will not forsake thee,

 else I would never get to heaven.

I wrong the work of grace in my heart

 if I deny my new nature and my eternal life.