Just How Good The Promise Is

As our faith in God’s promise to grow us in sanctification and holiness becomes more solid we can truly see how good that promise is. The apostle Paul brags about the power of God. I choose to use the term brag, because isn’t that what worship of God really is, us bragging about how awesome He is? Here is how Paul boasts about the Lord. Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor 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. Romans 8:33-39

Here is what Paul is saying. Who can bring an accusation against God’s children, let alone get a conviction of the crime? No one can accomplish this, because it is God who justifies us, the very judge the charge would be brought to. We can not be condemned because Christ not only died, but he also rose again, and is standing before the throne of God interceding for us. So who can separate us for him? No one can, that is who. No matter what happens, life nor death, trial nor tribulation, angels (which Satan is a fallen one) nor rulers, mountains nor the very depths of the earth. Nothing can separate us from the Love of God is Christ. For our lives are hidden in Christ with God. Praise the Lord that just makes me want to sing and dance!

Lord,
My response to you is this alone. GLORY to God in the highest!