Monday, July 22, 2013

5 Great Truths from Romans 8:25-39 - Part 2

This is part two of five in a series of posts called "5 Great Truths from Romans 8:25-39".

Q2- How will He (God the Father) not also with Him (Jesus) graciously give us all things? (v32)
A2- God will supply everything we need, even when all seems lost.

Why: We can know and trust this is true because "God did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all". The Lord chose to give the thing He loved most, and which cost Him most dearly, because He loved us. If God the Father chose to give the thing he loved most we can also trust he will give us all other things because  of His grace. Imagine your earthly Father was rich and promised to pay for your entire tuition at school. When the time came he joyfully payed your entire semester's worth of tuition. Now you have informed him of your need to purchase your books (which he has also happily promised to buy). Would you be sane or crazy to doubt He would pay for the books? You would be crazy because you know he delights to do this, has the means to do this, and has already shown his faithfulness to pay a far greater bill. Then how insane are we to doubt our heavenly Fathers promise to provide all we need! We know He is Lord of all (meaning he literally controls everything), has amazing and exceeding love (He killed His own Son on our behalf), and has shown his constant faithfulness to provide for us every day (everything we need including what we take for granted like breath, food, maintaining every cell and organ in our body, etc). He can be trusted to give us all things we need, no matter what our situation is, because of his grace (his complete and total love for us) which we have because of Jesus' perfect record being given to us. This is certain not because of anything you do, but because of Jesus' perfect obedience (which God now views us with so we are seen as perfectly obedient) and God's faithfulness.