Ouch! But, I was referring to you and all other believers. Of course the comfort and confidence is for the believers, even you don’t think the unbeliever has a claim on the “peace that passes understanding”, do you?
The spirit of Pharisaism is that a person gets favor from God because they have it coming. I am admitting I cannot do the letter of the Law, and neither could John Calvin. If that’s what you think the reformed thinking is about, then shame on us. We have utterly and completely misrepresented the Scripture. I wouldn’t like me either, if I give you the impression this is due to any good thing found in me. It is not. The remark, “Who are you...” came from Rom. 9, not me. Paul is the speaker, not me.
So, if you think that you are rescued because you chose, you decided to seek God, you came to your senses, I am just explaining that a Calvinist thinks the opposite. We do not possess the wherewithal to make the choice, we do not seek God, we don’t come to our senses. Believers are sought and rescued by the Shepherd, not because they sought Him, but because He came and invaded our lives and made us alive, while we were yet dead in our trespasses and sin. “I chose you, you did not choose me.” Grace really is “unmerited favor”. I am not excluding you, I am pointing out what a Grace has been poured out on you. Acts 13:48 “...and all that were appointed unto eternal life believed.” That’s you too.
Not meaning to pick holes in your coat, but by the above words, are you saying that man, in his natural state (for want of a better term) would not, instinctively, seek God? Yet how can this be? Were we not created by God and in His image? Has it to do with the incident in the Garden of Eden? But didn't the Almighty foresee this...and make allowances? After all, he was willing to negotiate with Lot, and yet Adam and his descendants were damned for all eternity for a single transgression? One that God for saw would be made?