Daniel #55 Know Your Spiritual Enemy's Tactics #3--Temptations to Doubt Salvation

Not all believers struggle to the same degree with this temptation to doubt whether their faith is a genuine
saving faith (some may never have had a struggle in this area, but many of us have so struggled at some point
in our Christian life). There is perhaps not a greater tool of the enemy to discourage us and to rob us of that
blessed peace, hope, and joy that have been purchased for us by the Lord Jesus than to turn us from looking
to Christ and His righteousness and rather to turn us to look merely at our failures, weaknesses, and sins. That
is a recipe for discouragement, hopelessness, and despair.
However, there is a confident hope in Christ that as a Christian you may have a certain assurance that you are
held safely in the loving, gracious, and almighty hands of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The enemy comes to
steal, to kill, and to destroy that gracious assurance, but Jesus comes to give life/assurance that through faith
in Christ you are alive in Christ.