The sovereignty of God
Rom 8:28
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.
This has been my family's hallmark scripture as long as I can remember. But too many times when something negative happens in our lives we tend to blame God instead of trusting God to know what is best in our lives.
Rom 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it .
When we hope for something we cannot see and then things don't go our way we think God has left us. Where is the patience?
Rom 8:26
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Rom 8:27
And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Maybe we have not allowed our spirit to grow in prayer. When we pray in the spirit our spirit makes intersession for us. In our heart we know what we need to do, but too many times we in the natural man are taken up with the cares of this life that we don't hear the still small voice of God. If we would listen God is always there to give us strength and comfort.
1Co 10:12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
1Co 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it .
Paul here comforts us to have faith. For we are the adopted of God. And as children of God, he knows what we need before we do. God then as a true father allows us to experience things that will help us mature into the image of Jesus. And that should be our first desire.
Rom 8:29
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.
I have found that every thing that happens in life is the will of God. That in every thing even negative things that if we trust God in the end God will be glorified and we will be blessed beyond measure.
Rom 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Take for an example some one robs you and takes from you your possessions. Our first response is to blame God for allowing this to happen. And yes God did allow it. But how we handle the situation is how we will grow in the spirit of God.
Rom 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
Who do you trust in you own strength, or do you put your trust in God our father who knows best what we need. He has shown us already how far he will go to keep us, when he spared not Jesus from the cross for each and every one of us.
Rom 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Rom 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Rom 8:34
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
We can be pushed and shoved. Condemned and judged by others, but God sees all and loves us and cares for us. God will always bring things back around for our good if we are faithful to trust in him.
Rom 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rom 8:37
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
No matter how bad things get the love of God will always be there for us. Even if we are ask to give our very life. Which is just the start of our true life with Christ in eternity.
Rom 8:38
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39
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.
So as I started out everything comes back to this very first verse.
Rom 8:28
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.
