Amen: You can’t use your feelings to gauge your salvation. Your mind didn’t get saved when you did and neither did your emotions. It was your spirit that was re-created! That’s why you can praise Jesus in church on minute and go out in the parking lot and feel like killing the guy who parked behind you!

Your feelings change every day, every hour, every minute. They can’t be trusted with something as valuable as salvation! If so, you’d be in and out of hell so much, you wouldn’t know what to do! And that is not God’s plan for your life. His plan is that you… “might have life, and might have it abundantly!” (John 10:10) God isn’t moved bye the chaos of feelings. He’s moved by faith.

Today you might not feel saved at all. But if you did what Romans 10:9-10 says, you’re saved whether you feel saved or not! Think of it like this: You may not feel like getting up and seeing the sun tomorrow, but it doesn’t really matter. It will. I don’t care if somebody spent all night trying to deceive you into thinking that it won’t. That sun is coming up tomorrow morning. It’s a fact! You can count on it!

God’s Word is more dependable than the sun He created. When He says something, it becomes a fact! His Word is always the last word. The devil might have been working overtime trying to convince you that you never really got saved, but he’s a liar. (John 8:44) If God said that all you have to do to be saved is confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, then it’s a fact! You can count on it!

God is a Spirit and His ways are spiritual, not physical. Feelings are physical, not spiritual. And although He created you as an emotional creature, your every feeling isn’t ordained by Him. As you continue to renew your mind to the Word of God, you will find that it is easier to determine when your feelings are steering you wrong. Just remember, feelings are temporary and they change constantly. But God never changes. (Hebrews 13:8) And the new, re-created spirit that now lives in you is a part of Him that isn’t likely to change either.

So, the next time you find yourself gauging your salvation by your feelings again, stop! The next time the devil tries to throw doubt about your salvation into your mind, stop! Turn the tables on your own unsaved mind and the devil by speaking out some of the scriptures you read above. Do it out loud if you have to! Begin to exercise your faith in this area and pretty soon, you won’t have a doubt in the world that Jesus is your Lord!