The following passage is as relevant today as it ever was. From it we can take great courage as disciples of Jesus Christ:

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written,

‘For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ “But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:31-32 & 34-39

What is God’s Holy Spirit telling us through this letter to the church in Rome?

• God being for his church trumps all those who would be against us
• Christ given for us proves that all things of God are at our service
• Nothing can separate us from Jesus’ love and intercession on our behalf
• God makes us more than conquerors in spite of persecution and hardships
• All of these blessings are for those who choose to come into Christ

It is as Jesus promised:

“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33