Blessed Assurance

The work of righteousness will be peace,
And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
  -- Isaiah 32:17

I am probably not the first one to search for blessed assurance in the Bible only to be told that the two words do not appear together anywhere in the New King James version.  What a disappointing development! Does that make that great old hymn a heresy? Some people consider the NKJV itself a heresy since it isn't the King James version of the Bible. Others consider the KJV a heresy since it isn't in Latin...which wasn't the language Moses or Jesus spoke either. We have a pattern formed here. The scripture as we are given it in those various versions is sufficient, but we also have the word of the Spirit of our Lord working in us. The songs, sermons, speeches, and yes, even short notes of devotion in the morning, are all responses from those who believe to the Word of God living in us. Blessed Assurance could certainly take its place among the psalms, but it doesn't have to if doing so will shake the faith of those who need to place boundaries on the Word. 

Sing to the Lord, it's all His work in us!

Bucky