Recently, I have met questions about
(an)surrances of the salvation. I am confronted with these question in the
field of friendship but also in my own heart. How can I be sure that I am
saved? It is, indeed, very simple question; many of you might give me a dozen
of answers, which would, however, not calm me.
So how can I be sure that I go to heaven? In
fact, that question is wrongly asked. Why? Because heaven is not a reason we do
this. Most of us wrongly think that the Christianity is about following the
Winner. Wrong! The Christianity is about following the Christ, who is “accidentaly“
also the Winner. You need to realise that aspect and think about it. Do you
follow Christ because you love him, or because he is the Winner? So the
question about the open gate of heaven should not be even asked. If God would
not let us to heaven, would we leave him? If Jesus lost, would we leave him?
Are we good warriors, who go with their General to the fight, carry theirs and
his cross and also die with him? Or are we just the ones who are on the side of
the Winner?
Enough to the spirit of the question, now we
really need to answer it. We are just people and we need to be sure (or at
least have a hope), that our General wins a takes us with him. And now I am not
sure – I am not good enough and keep failing. Why would I be saved?
If somebody thinks God would not take him
home, becuase he follows him wrongly, what can I say? Well, that’s dissapointing.
Really – it is dissapointing, that we were given a sense for reason and yet we
believe devil’s lies.
Jesus said, whoever takes his sacrifice and
believes in it and also it the meaning it has, will be saved. That’s a promise.
God is good and righteous, therefore he cannot change his promise. We can be
sure (better would be “have faith“) about the salvation, because He made a
promise. If I said it as a fool: By creating this gracing justice, God promises
the part of his kingdom, and if we accept this promise, He will not be able to
take it from us, even if He wants to.
Of course, some will shout, that we cannot
clame with such arrogance, how God will judge. But if we must not have even
tried to, we could already keep our bibles closed and “go the hell“.
