Examining Our Salvation

UPDATE: A new J.C. Ryle 365 Day Devotional has been released from Reformation Heritage Books. This devotional was taken from hundreds of J.C. Ryle's sermons. You can order the devotional HERE.

Let us search and try our hearts with honest self-examination, and seek to find out whether there is any real work of the Holy Spirit in our inward man. Far be it from me to encourage the slightest approach to hypocrisy, self-conceit, and fanaticism.

Nor do I want any one to look for that angelic perfection in himself on earth, which will only be found in heaven. All I say is, let us never be content with the “outward and visible signs” of Christianity, unless we also know something of “inward and spiritual grace.” All I ask, and I think I have a right to ask, is that we should often take the First Epistle of John in our hands, and try to find out by its light whether we are “born of God.”

~ J.C. Ryle

The Upper Room, “Victory”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1970], 139, 140.