Friday, March 26, 2010

and best of all...

A few parting thoughts seemed appropriate from Romans, Chapter 8.  We have a problem we couldn't solve and the Lord solved it through a Savior.  We still have issues that are beyond our strength but He provides His Spirit to walk with us.  Our weakness throws us closer to Him (or causes us to drift farther away).  We learn that life is not about our control but about His.  Like an unbroken mustang from the wild west we need to be broken.  Our pride needs to be shattered so we can trust and yield to the only One who loves us with a forever kind of care. 
 
Ultimately we need to come to the place where we really believe Romans, chapter 8 verses28-30: And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.  Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified
 
....and how about verses 31-34! 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 delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.  Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
 
...but the grand finale (with firecrackers and cannon blasts is reserved for verses 35-39:  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written:  
"For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
 
For, best of all, we will be with Him forever...starting now!
 
blessings,
Rob Smith

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