1:4–5, NKJV; Heb. 6:11; 10:22), many who profess Jesus Christ struggle to experience it. That raises the obvious question of why some Christians lack assurance. There appears to be a complex of several reasons that believers doubt their salvation. While this division is, in some ways, artificial, since the reasons overlap, it is still helpful to sort through them. First, some lack assurance because they sit under demanding, confrontive, convicting preaching of the law that upholds a high standard