© Matthew Tuel — 2025
Psalm 27:1 (NET, 2nd Ed.)
1 The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I fear no one.
The LORD protects my life.
I am afraid of no one.
Romans 8:31-39 (NET, 2nd Ed.)
31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died (and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Proverbs 15:11 (NET, 2nd Ed.)
11 Death and Destruction are before the LORD—
how much more the hearts of humans!
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NET, 2nd Ed.)
9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else.
It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
10 I, the LORD, probe into people’s minds.
I examine people’s hearts.
I deal with each person according to how he has behaved.
I give them what they deserve based on what they have done.
With Calvin, we see the source of our strength, and the reason we should have no fear.
With Spurgeon, we see that God sees the innermost corners of our soul. Nothing is hidden from him.