You come to that place in your life when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Everything is going great. Then out of the blue you begin to doubt that you are saved. Those feelings that you had when you accepted Christ as Savior have left. You no longer feel like you are saved, and begin to doubt the validity of your salvation experience.
Martin Luther is one of the founders of the Reformation, where Christians began to believe that their Christianity is based on faith in Christ alone. It is not based on rituals or tradition or anything else. Christ and Christ alone is the basis of being saved. This salvation comes by faith in the Lord. Someone asked Luther, “Do you feel that you have been forgiven?” He answered, “No, but I’m as sure as there is a God in heaven. For feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.” Now, that is some solid truth that you can bet your life on. You cannot believe your feelings. You cannot believe them in regards to your salvation, your love for another person, your outlook on another day, or anything else. Like Luther said, “feelings are deceiving.” That is absolutely true.
In regards to your salvation, feelings cannot ever be trusted. The spiritual feelings following a salvation experience will fade. When that happens, you begin to doubt your salvation experience. When you trust your feelings in salvation, you will ride a roller coaster ride. Your feelings will at one time be affirmative and just around the corner they will be totally absent; that cycle will repeat itself unless the cycle is broken.
Scripture is 100% true from cover to cover. It tells the emotional drifting believer to not trust their emotions in regards to salvation but to trust the Word of God. “These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). So, to know that you are saved, you base that knowledge on the facts of the Bible and not emotions!
