The Highway Forums General Discussion Devotional Quotes The Blessings of the New Covenant

#1 It is no sign of humility, no mark of saintliness, to go into the presence of God doubting whether God is forgiving you. That is unbelief, lack of faith. That is failure to understand the truth. So, my friend, never again try to give the impression that you are such a sensitive Christian that you do not like to be certain that your sins are forgiven. It is our business to know that our sins are forgiven! We derogate from the grace and the glory of God and the wonder of this gospel is we are uncertain about it; ‘Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest of all.’ Not in my merit, not in my righteousness, not in terms of my understanding, but by the blood of Jesus. He has opened the way. And, therefore, we go knowing that God has said in this new covenant, ‘I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people’ (Heb. 8:10).

- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Great Doctrines of the Bible – Volume 1. Page 355

But who, while yet living on this earth doesn't have this type of doubt from time to time? We are not yet glorified and thus our faith is plagued with weaknesses, yet never failing. A tender reed is no less washed completely in the blood of Christ than the boldest saint. Assurance is progressive in nature by design but never fully developed else we would be at risk to fall away due to an overt presumption; a fruit of the old sinful nature.