Assurance: To set a Child of God Free

Whenever you’re running your life on those fuels, Satan’s got you where he wants you. The one thing he does not want is that God’s words “You are my beloved child” become the fuel of your life and heart J. C. Ryle was the Anglican bishop of Liverpool, England, in the late nineteenth century. In an essay titled “Assurance,” he writes very movingly about this effect: 

Now assurance goes far to set a child of God free. . . .It enables him to feel that the great business of life is a settled business, the great…