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Blessed Assurance

10/16/2019

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I played Blessed Assurance for our worship song in The Sanctuary Worship this past weekend and it brought back such good memories. When I was young I would sing this song in church with the youth choir and I would hear my father belt this with confidence as he led us from the pulpit. I also have fond memories of hearing my grandfather telling the congregation to turn to a certain page in their hymnals and leading us off with that same confidence that my father had. I never understood why they sung this song with such confidence and meaning until I became a grown woman, and had fostered my own relationship with God. The words to this song have a whole new meaning.   

When I think of having trust and feeling safe in a relationship it really is to have a Blessed Assurance, meaning to feel confidently assured that this person is who they say they are, will have my back and they have my best interest at heart.  When you're assured in anything, you are confident about that thing. Your position is not to worry that it will work out,  if it is what it says it is, or is who they say they are; you trust it!  

The Scriptures teach that we can know with absolute certainty that we have the life of God within us   (1 John 4:13). This confidence is not based on inner feelings or outward signs. Rather, this “blessed assurance” is founded upon the promises of a faithful God and His inspired Word and it depends not on the amount of our faith but on the object of our faith–Christ Himself! 

Hebrews 10:22-23 says, "Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith. . . .Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”  This means being confident in my leader, God, and the gifts, talents, and knowledge He has placed in me. I know that without Him I am nothing.


What does your confidence rest on?  What were you put on this earth to be or to do?  What is your story, what is your song? Believe me your story and song is what God uses to give you beauty for your ashes. (Isaiah 61:3) God and His Spirit that dwells in us gives us the power to overcome worry, stress, anxiety, low self esteem, and all the 'isms that I don't have time to name.  

Today as I look into the horizon of a big unknown future, I have a Blessed Assurancee that says I am not ashamed of my story, and I will sing it with confidence. Not with confidence in me, but in who I worship for being  a Blessed Assurance!
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