It's a hard thing to get quite right--- at least, it is for me --- because one can err on either side of it: presumption (No fear! No matter what, I'm saved!) and despair (No hope. No matter what, I'm damned.) We err by judging; we err by failing to judge.
There is an exactly right way to do this-- we can see it in Our Lord -- but we, in this life, find it so easy to become caricatures, with one garbled and fragmentary version of the truth, or the other.
Thank you for correcting me.
No need to apologize. Misunderstandings occur.
I would submit that anyone with the attitude of *I’m good so I can sin with impunity, God has to forgive me* (Or even God will forgive me), is not really saved. That person is just looking for fire insurance and that not what a relationship with Christ is all about. God will not be used and God will not be mocked.
OTOH, there is a great deal of comfort in the thought of my security, that my own human weakness and frailty, which leads to sin so often, will not condemn me. I’m secure, not because of who I am or what I do, but because of who HE is and what HE’S done.
It allows me the freedom to fail without fear. Perfect love casts out fear.
My confidence in my security in Him is NOT something I take for granted.