ed opinion: (note:  some of these phrases may have come from John MacArthur or John piper )

Here is the great objective foundation for the full assurance of hope: the forgiveness of sins is grounded, finally, not in my finite worth or work, but in the infinite worth of the righteousness of God, i.e.  God’s unswerving allegiance to uphold and vindicate the glory of his name. Take your stand on this. Base your life on this. Ground your hope in this.  Do that and you will be free from the futile mindset of the world; and you will never fall.  When God’s exaltation of God in Christ is your joy, it can never fail. God has and always will exalt Christ. “Behold his son in whom he is well pleased”.

Keep your eyes, your mind and your heart on the word, and the father and son will love you and come and make their abode with you.  Jesus, the Christ, lives in you and in your heart and the father leads you in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.