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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jul 22, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 28.

4131 — Knowing

By Editor

Is there such a thing as a person being saved and not knowing it? or will you know when you are converted and saved, so you can testify of it and know it?

Not always. Experiences come to some altogether differently than to others. The natural disposition in some minds is to be decided and positive, in others to be questioning, and yet the timid, almost doubting, one (who doubts no one but himself) may be just as near the Lord as the confident one. To some conversion comes suddenly, at an instant, and they know the very time when God spoke peace to their souls. To others it is a gradual work.

In the pathway of some they know when they pass from the valley to the hill,—the demarcation is clear and distinct; but with some the way is so gradual that they hardly know that they are ascending, and yet in a little time they can look back and know that God has lifted them from the slough of sin and of despond and placed their feet upon the highway of holiness. He gives to every soul His twofold witness; that is more than all feeling and all emotional experience. Is our heart in harmony with His word? Does the voice in our heart speak in harmony with the voice in His word? We may know then that we are His. Do we meet the little, daily tests gladly? Are we submissive under reproof, willing to be admonished, anxious to be corrected, so that our feet may be kept in the right way? We may know that we are His. All imperfect as we are, He accepts us in the name of the Beloved. Have we confessed our sins? Then we may know from His own word that "He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." These are the evidences which we need to keep before us, and the evidences upon which we may depend and know that we are saved; but we may well be in doubt if our hearts are rebellious against His will, and we are careless and indifferent regarding duty.