Question:
How do I know if I’m saved?

Answer:
Here is a question that I can remember troubling me as a child, through my teens, and even later in my life. I grew up in a Christian home. I knew the way of salvation. I knew I was a sinner. I knew that I believed on the Lord Jesus as my Saviour, yet I didn’t have the assurance of being saved.

The reason for this was that I could not consciously remember ever being saved. I could not remember a date, a time, or even the event. Nothing! Others around me could point to a certain time and say, “This is when I was saved.” But I could not remember because I was too young. I could remember lying in bed at night being very much troubled about whether I was really saved.
I can remember praying “Lord Jesus if I am not saved please save me. I know that I am a sinner. I trust in you as my Saviour.” (Words to this effect.) Yet the next night the same troubling thoughts would be repeated and the same prayer prayed. This went on for many, many years. It took a long time for me to have the assurance of salvation, to take God at His Word: to know that “Salvation is of the Lord.”
Salvation doesn’t depend on feelings or experiences or remembering a date or event in my life. Salvation rests on the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. We are “accepted in the Beloved” [Christ] (Ephesians 1:6). We receive this salvation when we see our need of a Saviour and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. We find this assurance in the Word of God.
Acts 16:31 – “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

John 3:15, 18 – “Whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life….He that believeth on Him is not condemned.”

John 3:36 – “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.”
So how do I know that I am saved? The answer to this lies in the question.—Do I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour? If yes! then on the authority of God’s Word we have eternal life. And if we are plagued by doubts and fears like I was, we again must return to the Word of God, “The holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15).
The living Word of God is our authority. “Being born again…by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (1 Peter 1:23). The Holy Spirit of God will give each one the verses that are needed to give us the knowledge, peace, and assurance of our salvation.

“These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God” (1 John 5:13).
Then we can sing the chorus—
I’m saved and I know that I am,

I’m saved by His wonderful plan,

I’m saved by His infinite grace,

I’m so glad I know that I’m saved.
Saved by His grace, Robbie (Higgs)