“If God be for us, who can be against us?…
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect?…
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again…
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?…
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us….”
There is so much certainty in these questions that Paul asks. If any had been through trials to test these truths, Paul had. And he finishes this 8th chapter of Romans by saying ‘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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’
Do we believe it? Do we live as though we believe it.
How did Paul begin this triumphant list?
With these well known words… ‘And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.’
How do we know?
‘For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.’
The trials have a purpose – to make us more like Jesus!
The trials are not permitted so that they might destroy us but rather to conform us, to mould us into the likeness of our Saviour.
Then will you trust Him, even when the way is rough?
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Romans 8:28-39