Assurance of faith is one of the great blessings of the Christian life. To be sure, it comes and goes, waxes and wanes. Sometimes the Christian is certain he or she is a beloved child of God. Other times the Christian doubts whether it is so. But assurance is something Christians should pray for, strive for, and be thankful when they have it. Charles Hodge has a good word on the grounds, or basis, for assurance in volume three of his Systematic Theology:
Many sincere believers are too introspective. They look too exclusively within, so that their hope is graduated (or grows – spl) by the degree of evidence of regeneration which they find in their own experience. This, except in rare cases, can never lead to the assurance of hope. We may examine our hearts with all the microscopic care prescribed by President Edwards in his work on “The Religious…
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