I believe that my Savior, my King, bears His name with
honor and glory.
I believe His eternal divinity.
I believe His real humanity.
I believe that I am one of His household.
I believe that I was lost. I have known the sentence of
death. But, I believe most certainly that I have
been ransomed and absolved.
I believe that I am the just reward of all His labor, of
all His pains and sweat.
I believe that He has won and gained me by His own
sword and bow.
I believe that I am no longer compelled to sin.
I believe that I will not die.
I believe that I have mastery over the Devil.
I believe that I am redeemed, not through word or
work, or miracle or arbitrary decree of God,
or through a new creation or through any other
means than through the punishment of death
which the Son of God suffered for me.
I believe that I now belong to no one but to Him who
has earned me.
I believe that He has the Kingdom over all.
I believe that I live under Him, where I am under His
protection, under His peace, under His rule.
I am certain that I have the unalterable right, which all
my fellow citizens have, to be as unchangeably
holy as they, and that I am as constantly happy
as they all are.
I also believe that I am nothing without Him, and that
I live only because He lives. As long as He lives,
I will live also.
And, I know all this as certainly as I know that my
head is on my shoulders.