Doubts About My Salvation

Q. I am a new believer and I have nagging question to ask you. This might sound strange, but when I decided to get saved, in my heart I believed Christ died on the cross for my sin, I am a sinner and needed Christ to be my personal savior.  But the problem was that my speech has been one of my main weaknesses since I was a child; therefore when I tried to confess to Christ, I couldn’t say it correctly. Because of this, sometimes I have doubts with my salvation. Any help?

A. The Lord can’t misunderstand us because He isn’t limited by our language skills. He looks into our heart where our true motives are revealed to Him.

Paul wrote that if we confess with our mouth, “Jesus is Lord” and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead, we’ll be saved. (Romans 10:9) To confess with our mouth simply means to agree out loud. There’s no special wording required.   Believing in our heart is the most important, because when we believe that Jesus rose from the dead, it means we believe that all of our sins were paid for on the cross.

If you sincerely wanted Him to be your Savior when you asked Him, then He agreed to do so and you have no reason to doubt.