Wednesday, February 9, 2011

God is for us

[Romans 8
 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 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? 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.”[k]

 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,[l] 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.]

Thank you, Lord for letting me see this Word "we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered".  This is how the world sees us: our Faith worthless, our Word idiotic, our Savior unseen.  And yet, because He lives within me, I am more than a conqueror because nothing . . . none of these things can stop His overwhelming great love from living in me, from filling me up.  And since it is Life itself - I have it all - everything.  I am not condemned and rejected and unloved and unworthy; but rather I am lifted up, accepted, loved, and worthy by God, Himself.
AMEN!

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