Assurance is gifted to us

Everyone of Gods children should have a settled assurance. When we are saved God reverses the way that we view morality. God must settle us in our assurance before we can grow in the christian experience. Before we were saved we believed that it was necessary to do good in order to be rewarded. We believed that our relationships with others was built on doing good to our neighbor. We lived by the laws of karma that what we do always comes back to us. But when we are saved all of our motivation comes from experiencing the love of God.

God has created everything for the purpose of being pleased with His creation. In the first temptation of man Satan wanted us to believe that God did not create everything for our good. Rather Satan presented the idea that God left something out with the intention to deceive us. When Satan convinced man to accept that if he disobeyed God, man would know this other gift that man could get upon eating the fruit, man became his own god and received the curse of death. But this did not thwart Gods original purpose to love mankind.

But when sin entered into the world everything that God created became corrupted. The problem is that if God loved all men as His children without showing that He gave man freedom then He would be seen as someone who created robots. God does not rule by forcing people to act. That would not be love but dictatorial control. Rather God shows His love by setting His children free from experiencing the curse of the second death. God does not just save a person from hell but He gives His children a gift that is different from all other gifts.

When we receive a gift from other men it is given so that we can enjoy it by using it for our personal benefit. We use it in some way to further our success by enjoying it. So in this way we add to the value of the gift by the amount of work we put into its use. So the value of the gift is according to our character that we share in enjoying it. But Gods gift is not like this. God has provided His gifts with a total experience of the highest performance and pleasure of the gift so that we can enjoy it in total freedom of our limitations but never getting to the experience that God has performed . The pleasure of the gift then is valued according to the Person who gifted it to us. The unfathomable knowledge of the gift is in God alone. When God gives us His gifts He gives us Himself because He wants to love us as He is free to make the gift and its enjoyment according to His eternal pleasure. So Im saying that our assurance of the gift of salvation is based upon Gods understanding of what He has gifted us. This is why the apostle compared receiving this assurance as a cry to a Father from a child.