Do you believe that God is for YOU? Because often times I fall prey to believing that He is against me and ready to smite me with a lightning bolt. But what has been resounding in my head recently is…”do you truly believe that that I am for you?”. The truth is that Yahweh is FOR you. No sin, no wandering of the mind, no selfishness, no spiritual amnesia, no doubt can make Him not for you. In everything you are more than a conqueror through Christ. Nothing rests on you. It rests on Jesus Christ. The security of a believer rests on the Father’s faithfulness to answer the prayers of Jesus Christ (Jn 17). And Jesus says “It is finished”, therefore, nothing can make God not be for you. Don’t speak lies over yourself that He is against you. Remind yourself today that He loves you. Remind yourself that He is always for you because His character is not affected by your decisions or emotions. He is who He is! “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8). And He himself has said…I will never leave you nor forsake you (Heb 13:5).
Romans 8:31-39
"What then shall we say 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 with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Blessings,
Sage, Summer Intern
