Confident and Unafraid

Scripture Reading: Psalm 27:1,3

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?... Though an army encamps against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arises against me, yet I will be confident.

We hear echoes of Romans 8:31 in this Psalm. Paul, also phrasing the point in the form of a rhetorical question, wrote, “If God is for us, who can be against us?”  This Psalm hints at the reason for confidence and courage amidst trial and trouble: “The Lord is my light and my salvation…”

Paul gives us the amplified version of that:

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will he not also with Him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died – more than that, who was raised – who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? … No in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:32-39)

What can I add to that? Nothing at all.

If Jesus is yours and you are His, be blessed. Be courageous. Be confident.

Don’t be afraid.