Romans 8:31 “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
What a true blessing of a scripture, what a blessing
from our Sovereign God, the very Being that controls everything that is created.
As created beings, even as Christians, we will never be able to totally
understand nor grasp what God is saying here in this verse. This verse should
bring glorious peace of mind to every believer, and when we add in verse 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.” it should cause every
believer to rejoice and shout from the mountain top, so that everyone can hear
us for miles around. Listen closely to Psalms 46:7 “The LORD of hosts is
with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.” The word “refuge” means
God is our cliff or inaccessible place, meaning there is no safer place in existence
than being in the Lord and the Lord being in us. Look at how the Psalmist
describes the Lord in Psalms 18:2 “The LORD is my rock, and my
fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in
whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and
my high tower.” We must ask ourselves, “do we need anyone else” the
answer must be no, because in the Lord our God we have everything we need.
Beloved, we need never worry, wonder, nor fear any creature or anything else
because God is for us! Listen once more to the Psalmist in Psalms 118:6 “The
LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”
As Christians we are God’s children, we are His possession, and because of that
we have His greatest promise, “…for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
Heb. 13:5c This very thought should give every child of God the greatest of
comfort. We live in a dangerous world, Satan and his people in this world hate
us, they want to destroy us every second of every day. And if it were not for
the power and grace of God, they would. But God is our refuge or our
hiding place, we are in the palm of His hand, and no one has the ability nor
the power to bring any harm to us that God does not allow. Think about the word
is “perseverance”, it is found only once in the entire scriptures, “Praying
always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”
Ephesians 6:18 The word “perseverance” means persistence which means we are to
be "to be attentive or vigilant." in our faith in God. We pray
because we trust God in all things, in our everyday life and every event or
action or happening in our everyday life. We need to constantly remind
ourselves that “God is for us” and since He is, we can believe that whatever He
brings us to, that He will also bring us through it. If God (as He did with Job”
bring suffering and challenging times to us, then we are going to be fine. The
Lord said in Rom. 8:17 “And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be
also glorified together.” God will lead us into trials, persecutions,
and tribulations, just as He did Jesus His own Beloved Son. It is our walk in
this life, suffering with the Son because this is God’s will for us and it is
for our own good.
Then God added in verse 31 “who can be against us?”
this is our perseverance or our persistence that our faith can be strong
because we do not walk alone in this life, God walks with us protecting us from
all evil. God sets the limits of what happens in our life, there are no coincidences,
or we do not live by “luck” everything in a Christians life is by God’s will
and grace. Just as He told Satan “And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand…”
Job1:12 God is not against us, God does not allow things in our life to hurt
us, but everything has a purpose and that purpose is, “…all things work
together for good to them that love God…”. Therefore, no one can be against
us, because God is not only for us but in us. God is the Omnipotent God over
all creation and there is no greater power than Him. Praise God for His always
being with us!
