The weather can be wildly unpredictable. One day might be warm and sunny, the next a blizzard, and the day after that, temperatures could soar. Many people live their spiritual lives with similar instability, tossed back and forth by feelings and circumstances, never truly certain where they stand with God. They might depend more on a weatherman to decide how to dress than on God’s Word to find their security.

But God does not want His children living in a state of spiritual confusion or fear. He desires for us to have complete confidence in our salvation. The entire book of 1 John was written for this very purpose: “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13). One of the clearest signs that we belong to Christ is a heart that reflects His own compassion for a world in need.