Frankly I think all of us Christians find it easy find in our experience the fight to have assurance in our trials. And we need to remember that ". . .the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church . . .according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.
In our trials we cry out to God with an assured hope that we have "access with confidence," and "this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him." And, thus we fight the doubts that God is there with an assurance given us in comfort of the Holy Spirit ministering to our being as our Comforter and Counselor.
But when things are good, we are in peril to live a life of doubt as if God is not there. We need to make our cry, " I will never forget Your precepts, For by them You have given me life." (Ps. 119:93). Our life without God is like grass that is withered to a crunchy brown. We must fight doubts that are sufficient in ourselves, and do not need the water of God's Word in our life. We must fall to the temptation to live in the blessings of God without any sense that He is permeating us with His presence-- not in a strictly emotional way, but in a wholistic way, so that our being is blanketed with the deep sense of doing His will. (1 Cor 10:31). Our soul must speak to itself with this permeating presence of God in the words of David (Ps. 103:1-5):
Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! 2 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: 3 Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, 4 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, 5 Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
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