“Blessed Assurance” is a well-known Christian hymn. The lyrics were written in 1873 by blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby to the music written in 1873 by Phoebe Knapp.

Crosby was visiting her friend Phoebe Knapp as the Knapp home was having a large pipe organ installed. The organ was incomplete, so Mrs. Knapp, using the piano, played a new harmony she had just composed. When Knapp asked Crosby, “What do you think the tune says?” Crosby replied, “Blessed assurance; Jesus is mine.”

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine
Heir of salvation, purchase of God
Born of His spirit, washed in His blood

Perfect submission, all is at rest
I in my Savior, am happy and blessed
Watching and waiting, looking above
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love

This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Savior all the day long

Assurance, according to the dictionary, is a positive declaration intended to give confidence; a promise.

Insurance, according to the dictionary, is a thing providing protection against a possible eventuality.

In Christ we have both assurance and insurance.

Trust no one but Christ for your salvation and you will experience the blessing from God’s Word of both assurance and insurance.

2 Timothy 1:12

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

Think about it.

Gary