Read Ro. 8:29-39
I'm looking at verses 29 and 30 at what God did for us. He foreknew us, predestined us, called us, justified us, and glorified us. Not once does it say we did a thing. So the next verse is our response: if God be for us who can be against us? He has hasn't held back anything from us. He gave us what meant the very most to him, his son, so everything else is lagnaippe. And, if God justifies us who can accuse us?
God's love is amazing. We will be surrounded by it in our trials, in our times of stress, when we receive bad news, when we are being persecuted for our faith, when we are starving, when we are stripped bare, when we are in danger, and when we are in war. The best thing you can teach your children to do is call out to God when they are in trouble. He promises to rescue them. Last week the papers ran the story about the young girl who was abducted and spent years in a backyard tent with a child molester who fathered 2 of her children. That sounds totally awful for her mother to go through but look at the result. She and her two daughters were healthy and seemingly happy. God's love was with her through the whole ordeal and they were reunited with her family at just the right time.
When I read the story it immediately reminded me of Joseph. He was abducted, put in prison, abused, wrongly accused, and left with little hope of escaping till God rescued him at just the right time. We don't understand God's ways because they are higher than ours but I know that God will work something good out of this latest news.
In all things we are more than conquerors. Let me try to give you a picture of a person who is "more than a conqueror". A boxer fights in a ring and wins $4,000 which makes him a conqueror. We goes home to his wife and hands her his check. She is more than a conqueror. She didn't do anything to get it and neither did we. Nothing, nothing, nothing can separate us from his love.
Thank you Lord that we can trust in your love to keep us from evil.
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