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.

Live Like You Are Chosen

This is an excerpt from a book by John Frame, Salvation Belongs to the Lord. Frame provides a unique perspective on the doctrine of election. Just thought it offers a fresh view on what it means to be a believer and belong to God.

Effectual calling, sometimes called the internal call, is this: God sovereignly , efficaciously summons (John Murray's word) the elect into fellowship with Christ. That word summons brings out God's sovereignty. You might be able to refuse an invitation, but you can't refuse a summons. A summons is an offer you cannot refuse....You see, a lot of people in the world are elect but not saved. Before you believed in Jesus, you were in that situation. You were elect, chosen of God before the foundation of the world, but you lived as an unbeliever, without any faith in Christ. How did God change you? The first phase, the first event, is effectual calling. Note the characteristics of effectual calling: it is the work of God the Father, summoning you into the fellowship of his Son.

Remember who chose you and live like it.