Discouraged?
Things bothering you a lot lately? Do your problems seem overwhelming
and there is nowhere or anyone to turn to for help? Think again.
Jesus has been and always will be there. If you are a child of God,
you have a guarantee, paid for by the very life of the Savior of the
world – JESUS. No matter
what the problem, no matter how big, God has made a way for you. Read
on to see the scope of God’s provision…
Romans
8 ( World
English
Bible
)
Rom
8:28, We know that all things work together for good for those who
love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
(emphasis
added)
Rom 8:29, For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed
to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brothers.*
Rom 8:30, Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called,
those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Rom 8:31, What then shall we say about these things? If God is for
us, who can be against us?
Rom 8:32, He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for
us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33, Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is
God who justifies.
Rom 8:34, Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather,
who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for us.
Rom 8:35, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could
oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36, Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all
day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”*
Rom 8:37, No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us.
Rom 8:38, For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers,
Rom 8:39, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will
be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord. (emphasis added)
I
always thought about God’s provision in a way that reflected my
understanding of the world around me, but this passage from Paul’s
letter to the Romans shows me that my thinking was just way to small.
God’s power extends beyond my imaginings; things in heaven and
beyond, things that I will never, ever be able to comprehend. In a
word – EVERYTHING.
Now,
EVERYTHING
does not just include those things that will happen to you, it means
all your past (whether good or bad) as well. God can use it all to
mold you into everything HE desires, and HE desires the very best for
you. Today, think on these things and rejoice, for you are loved more
than you will ever know! Again, I say – REJOICE!