If God is for us, who can be against us?

Good morning sisters and brothers,
Paul has spent lots of time building the case for grace. We could see today's reading as the climax, the point he's been building towards. "If God is for us, who is against us?" If God loves us enough to sacrifice God's own son to bring us back home, what could possibly keep us away from God? There are plenty of things that threaten to separate us from God, but there's nothing as powerful as God's love for us. One day God will bring us all safely home. Ultimately, we've got nothing to worry about, so we can focus on living our faith with love every day.

God bless you as you live today in love,
Sam

Thursday, April 7

31What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.


35Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor 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.