The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Romans 8:31b-35a,
"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?"
"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?"
Paul asks some great questions in this passage. With five rhetorical questions, Paul reasons beyond any question the assurance every believer should ever need for total confidence of what the future holds for those who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith.
Paul points out that since God is for us, who could possibly come against us? He points to the provision of the Father, providing the Son of his love, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sins on that cross. Since God gave us his Son, how is it he won't give us all?
Paul says that since God chose us for himself for all eternity, we are beyond any condemnation. The scriptures teach us that God chose for himself all who will embrace his Son in faith. Since we are among that number no one can "separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Verse 29.
If this were not enough to provide us assurance of our place in the family of God, Paul points out that Jesus Christ himself is praying to the Father for each of us! Imagine, my name and your name being brought before God the Father by his Son, Jesus Christ!
This is simply astonishing and amazing assurance and confidence we have in Jesus Christ!
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