Isaiah 42:1
"Behold My Servant, Whom I uphold; Mine Elect, in Whom My soul delighteth..."
Who is this Servant of God in Whom God's soul delights? Of course, it's His Son, the LORD Jesus Christ, His Elect.
What is it to be assured of being one of the chosen of God? It is to know Christ, God's Elect. When God by His Holy Spirit says to one of His own, "Behold My Servant," He provides the ears to hear Him as well as the eyes to see Him, Christ His Servant Who carried out the work of salvation on this earth, for His elect sinners.
Only His redeemed will truly know Him at some point in their life. If you know Christ Jesus the LORD, God's Elect, you know you are one of His. You will know Him as the Truth of Scripture. The fact that you know Him as He is set forth in Scripture, is the evidence that you are His.
Assurance, for the awakened sinner, IS CHRIST. We are awakened to the fact that He accomplished ALL that was necessary for us to live when He died on the cross. We are awakened to the fact that we did nothing to merit salvation, on the contrary, we earned condemnation before we were even born into this world, by our sin nature inherited from Adam, "For all have sinned..." (Romans 3:23)
Each of us would have taken that fruit and ate, each of us would have preferred to be a 'god' by eating it, each of us would have believed God was the liar instead of Satan, "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die." (Genesis 3:4)
So, in case you're trying to give yourself credit by thinking you would have done differently, you're just calling God a liar, again.
When the Spirit awakens you, you'll know that you are the liar and God is the Truth. You'll know that He is Grace and He is Mercy. You'll know that even though no one deserved it, yet, it was His good pleasure to save a remnant, out of the Goodness of His Heart: Christ Jesus.
So therein we know our Assurance:
He is our Mercy and our Grace,
He is God's Elect,
He is Jesus Christ our LORD!
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