PSALM 9:9-10
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What is your greatest fear?
If anyone had a reason to fear, it was David. When he wasn’t at war with neighboring nations, he was being hunted by his own people. His life was almost always at risk. The Psalms are filled with the testimony of the terrors he faced day after day after day.
But even with evil on every side, he could say in Psalm 27:1, “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?” Of whom shall he be afraid? How about Saul or foreign armies or traitors in his own ranks? The real question should be, of whom shall he not be afraid?
Somehow David was able to stare defeat and death in the face and not fear. He was seeing more than his circumstances — something beyond his circumstances — something that gave him comfort and confidence even when he was likely to lose everything. He saw through the threats to a God who promised to protect and deliver him.
What’s Your Greatest Fear?
To be a believer in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins is to be saved from God’s wrath and destruction. Safety is probably the most popular way of describing what God offers us through the gospel. After all, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
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As eternally safe as we are in Jesus, fears in this life still cloud our sense of comfort and confidence in Christ. For sure, they are lesser fears, but that doesn’t make them any less real and tangible and imminent. We really feel them. We might disappoint others or be failed by them. What if something happened to my child or I don’t raise them the right way? We might lose our job and be unable to pay the bills. We’re afraid we’ll lose a spouse or, maybe worse, never have one. We fear death and all the variety of ways it comes. We are surrounded by reasons — real reasons — to fear.
What Should We Fear?
But the logic of Psalm 27:1 suggests that all of these threats are nothing in light of who God is for us. The greatest horror we can ever face is having our sin-filled lives held up before a holy God. “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
Through faith in Christ, though, that threat has been cast aside forever. For us as believers, the biggest, scariest, most intimidating, longest-lasting terror was turned away and destroyed. The crisis has been averted. The distress has passed. The guilt removed. The execution canceled. The God of the universe satisfied and vindicated. So we no longer need to fear.
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