Romans 8:31-39

Romans 8:31-39 NIV
 ³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

I sit here and contemplate this very question.  How absurd my concerns and fears are in light of this truth.

³² 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?

I think of my children and how highly I value them.  There is NOTHING on this earth that I would not give for them.  Now put that logic to this question above.  God gave His son up for me.  That tells me that I am of high value to Him.  That also tells me that He will move heaven and earth to get me what I need.

Notice I did NOT say what I "want".  Parents to not give their children everything they want because they know it's not good for them.  I would never have chosen divorce, loss of my home, separation from my children, 2 surgeries, loss of my job, death of my sister, a blown engine causing me to buy a new car only to then crash the new car because a young lady did not see me as things that were "good" for me.  Yet God has used each of them to teach me how amazing He is.  I know things about me that needed to change and with His grace they are changing.

³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ 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. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?³⁶ As it is written:
   “For your sake we face death all day long;
   we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

It is God who justifies me.  Yes there are people on earth can make this body miserable and even go so far as to kill me.  But they cannot condemn me.  Christ intercedes, or pleads my case and I will live on in heaven because of what Christ did for me.

 ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ 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.

How are we conquerors?  Through Him who loved us.

Look at the list in vs 38 and 39 the next time you feel down and unloved by God.  NOTHING can separate you from that love and Jesus is our assurance of that.

God Bless.