“Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory”, 2 Timothy 2:10.

The quality or glory of salvation is not measured by the emotional experience in connection with repentance. Nor is it measured by how far you have come after having received salvation. The glorious part of salvation is found in the foundation of it. The eternal glory of salvation has its basis in the finished work at Calvary. Therefore, when you are trying to determine whether salvation is glorious, do not look at yourself, but at what Jesus did on the cross. Salvation is not to be built on feelings, but on facts.

Your surrender and your repentance is your reception of God’s ineffable gift and is, in fact, the only thing you have to do with salvation. The rest is a work of God who “worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure (that his will may be done)” (Philippians 2:13).

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