A Good Confession
There’s something powerful in knowing there’s just no possible way you can ever be defeated. How would it make you feel if you were convinced you will always win no matter what? In the Letter to the Romans in the Bible there is an undeniable truth full of promise and hope.
Romans 8:28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.
30 And having chosen them, He called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. 31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. 35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You and I are loved by God no matter what might be happening right now in the world around us, or in our own personal lives! We are loved with an everlasting love because Christ is in us, and we are in Christ by grace through faith! The times we are living in are filled with deception and strong delusion and those who can think clearly are becoming more and more uncommon. But it is a comfort to know that we are loved so greatly and cared for so attentively by the very One who created all things. The Almighty, All-Powerful, Most Holy, Most Loving, Never Changing, Always Faithful, Most Reliable, Promise Keeping God is your Father. He has promised to make sure all things work together for you are called according to His purpose for you and you love Him because He first loved you. Nothing can separate you from His love and who dares to accuse you because no one can condemn you. Stand firm in the reality of His love and promise to keep you.
I believe and because I believe I speak this good confession of faith. Why not hear yourself saying out loud what God says about you? I encourage you today to make a similar confession.
