REVEALED WORD TODAY
// READ: ROMANS 8:28-39 //
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
More Than Conquerors
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”[b]
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[c] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
MEDITATION:
Let us carefully study verse 29-30 today. It talks about foreknow and predestination. Foreknow means to know beforehand while predestinated means to predetermine or preordain by decree or purpose. These two words show that God has a plan/purpose before creating us and when we confess Jesus as our Lord and savior, we align ourselves to His initial plans for us. Beloved, this plan is good and not evil, stop listening to the lies of the devil and concentration on fulfilling God’s plan for your life.
PRAYER: Lord, I believe you have a plan for good for my life, help me to know and fulfil it in my lifetime.