| “If God is for us, who can be against us?” |
| —Romans 8:31b |
As children of God, through the life-transforming power of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, we definitely have certain benefits. In writing to the Christians at Rome, the Apostle Paul reminded them of some of those key benefits in Romans 8:28-39:
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
This day and every day, let’s keep in the forefront of our minds that God is always on our side. He is for us. He always has our best interests in mind. We can go out into the needy world today knowing that God has our back—and our sides and our front, too!
Originally posted on Friday, February 13, 2015
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