Bible Question: I am having doubts about my salvation. My first concern is that sometimes God does not seem real to me. I have asked Jesus to be my personal savior but when I read the Bible or think about God's characteristics, I have a hard time accepting it. Also when I am praying, sometimes I just cannot accept the fact that Jesus is interceding for me at that very moment, and God is ACTUALLY hearing my prayers as I say them. My second concern is that I am not sure when I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I wonder if it is just my emotions.   Bible Answer: The proof that we are Christians is not found in our ability to understand God; nor is it in some "spiritual emotion." There is a section at this site that can help you determine if you are a Christian. I would encourage you to visit the section..      Reality of God. God answered the first part of your concern when He said,     For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. (NASB) Isaiah 55:8-9   In short, we cannot completely understand God. God's character and holiness are a paradox to us. We do not understand holiness and love. Holiness demands punishment of evil - something He is not. Yet, many imagine that God is like us.     . . . You thought that I was just like you; . . . (NASB) Ps. 50:21   We cannot understand Him and our inability to perceive God does not mean that we are not Christians. It means that he is God and we are not. He is not like us and so we cannot totally understand Him.      Spiritual Feelings. The proof that we are Christians is not found in our ability to really know and experience God. Every true Christian longs to know God. Usually we seek an emotional experience, but emotions are deceptive. Even people of the Islamic and Hindu faiths have "spiritual emotions," but they are not Christian since they do not worship Jesus as the one and true God. Having"spiritual emotions" does not make a person a Christian.      Our emotions have a great influence on us. They motivate us to do good and bad things. They motivate us to rest, sleep, eat, hurt people, show kindness to others, and to sin, for example. When we are emotionally down, it is easy to think that God no longer loves us or cares for us. When we feel wonderful, it is easy to think that God likes us and is greatly blessing us. But scripture tells us that God has always loved us, even before we became Christians - even while we were sinners enemies of God (Rom. 5:10).     For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us . . . For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.(NASB) Rom. 5:6-8, 10.         < Back   Next >
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