The power to risk is in the promise of God. Obedience is risk. The bottom line comfort and assurance in all our risk-taking for Christ is that nothing will ever separate us from the love of God.
Every good poised to bless us, and every evil arrayed against us, will in the end help us boast only in the cross, magnify Christ, and glorify our Creator. Faith in these promises frees us to risk and to find in our own experience that it is better to lose our life than to waste it.
- John Piper