If God is For Us
Romans
Chapter 8 verse 31 from the Good News Bible reads:
(31) In view
of all of this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?
In our world today where separation seems to
be so prevalent one wonders how do we stay connected? And I’m not talking about
phones here, I’m talking about people staying connected to one another. I look
around and I see marriages that started out “in love” and fall part because
someone “fell out of love”. Years together building a home and family and
suddenly one walks away – to start a new life.
In marriage
God intends us to work together, loving and respecting one another, and to
bring children into the marriage. These children are our biological children
and / or adopted into the family. We as parents are to provide love, shelter,
food, guidance and direction to the lives we are entrusted with. We are to
bring the children up in the faith. Let them see Jesus as our Father in heaven
and assure them we are part of His family. We belong to the family of God when
we accept Jesus as lord and Saviour.
It touches
my heart when I meet people who have been together for years and years, still
in love, and enjoying their children and their children’s children. Sometimes
when the years allow, even their great- great grandchildren. In this family I
can see God as the Father of them all because the parents had a relationship
with Jesus and passed it on to their children who passed it on and so
forth, growing 3, 4 maybe even 5
generations of family who functioned as God intended.
Even when
families do not function as God plans, and separation happens, we remind
ourselves that those who are in the body of Christ, living as God directs; will
always be part of the family of God. We have a church family, brothers and
sisters in Christ and I’ve often heard it said, so-and-so was my spiritual mom
or dad. So if for any reason your biological family became separated please know
that God looks beyond that and welcomes you to a family that is bound together
in the love of Jesus. Jesus is God, and when God is for us who can be against
us? Give your heart to Jesus asking Him to be your Lord and Saviour, become
adopted into His family, be nurtured by His word, and put your faith and trust
in Him alone and you will always be family, here on earth and in eternal life.
So if you
meet someone today who has become separated from the earthly family please
assure them that in the family of God they will be connected. Connected to a
Father who loves them so much He sent His son to die for them. A Father who
loves all of us enough to forgive all our sins and give us love and direction
throughout our lives here on earth when we study His word and live our life by
it. When we make and keep a covenant with the Lord nothing will separate us
from His love.
Romans
chapter 8 verses 31 to 39 from the Good News Bible assures us of this as we
read:
(31) In view
of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us? (32)
Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own son, but offered him for
us all! He gave us his son – will he not also freely give us all things?
(33)Who will accuse God’s chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!
(34) Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who
was raised to life and is at the right hand of God, pleading with him for us!
(35) Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or
hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? (36)As the
Scripture says,
“For your
sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are
going to be slaughtered.”
(37)No, in
all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! (38) For I
am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life,
neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the
future, (39) neither the world above nor the world below – there is nothing in
all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which
is ours through Jesus Christ our Lord.
This is a
power word from the Lord.
Today, and
every day, I thank God that He is above all and no matter what takes place in
this world He transcends this world. Thank you Lord for your promise of eternal
life and giving us the knowledge of Your word. How comforting it is and what a
blessing to know,
If God is
for us who can be against us?
We are in
His hands.
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