This post began as a much, much, longer post. But I decided no one would read it. I certainly would not. So I give you the blogger’s digest version. Let me know if you want the long one.

Calvin himself indicated that the hinge on which true faith turns is “that we do not regard the promises of mercy that God offers as true only outside ourselves, but not at all in us; rather that we make them ours by inwardly embracing them.”

Yet, he concedes that a doubt-free, perfectly assured confidence will always prove elusive. This truth always remains: that faith and assurance of faith are to be rooted not in the individual’s fallen and insufficient ability to pursue a testimony that will only prove elusive, but that they are rooted in the character of God.

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