29 For those which he knew before, he also predestinated to be made like to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover, whom he predestinated, them also he called, and whom he called, them also he justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be on our side, who can be against us 32 Who spared not his own Son, but gave him for us all to death, how shall he not with him give us all things also? 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s chosen? it is God that justifieth. 34 Who shall condemn? it is Christ which is dead: yea, or rather, which is risen again, who is also at the right hand of God, and maketh request also for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake are we killed all day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter: 37 Nevertheless, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Epistle to the Romans 8:29-39
Good morning and greetings to all people in the Name of Jesus Christ
Indeed, there are two things at work here in today’s reading by the Apostle Paul. Firstly, God, as he had written is for us. How can He not be, He is our Creator. Being for us, meaning for us to be as He is. That is to say conformed, informed and transformed in to His image. Merciful, graceful, loving, peaceful. Slow to anger quick to forgive. Likewise, He is for us to succeed in all things that we endeavor as long as it is within His guidelines, and His knowledge of what is best for each of us. Nothing, can stand against the children of God, when God intervenes, or shields them. This is not a doctrine of prosperity, but an understanding, that as is written all things work for our good to those to trust and believe in the Word of God.
Secondly we read that there is nothing, absolutely nothing that can separate us from the God’s love for us. This writer puts forth the proposition, that God unconditionally loves all His children, and it is those, who refuse to love or acknowledge Him, that would keep them apart. His love would be and still is there, but, it is man who turns his face away, and not the other way around. Seek the Lord while He may be found.
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