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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Romans 8:28
‘We know’
Read Psalms 107:1-31
‘We’. Paul is talking about those who are born again by almighty grace, those who are redeemed by Christ, regenerated by the Holy Spirit and live by faith in the hope of eternal glory. ‘We know’. Being taught by the Holy Spirit of God who dwells in our hearts and gives us understanding in Holy Scripture, we have an intuitive and confident knowledge of God’s good providence. This is what we know: ‘that all things’, both good and bad, prosperous and adverse, pleasant and painful, ‘work together’ - the many things that exist and the many things that happen in our lives are not independent and isolated. They are so many gears in the machinery of divine providence, all working together. Being under divine control and ordered by divine arrangement, all the affairs, events, creatures and men in the universe are being manipulated by our heavenly Father, so that ‘all things work together for good’. Though any event of life, singled out and standing alone, may seem terribly evil, when it is viewed as one spoke in the great wheel of divine providence, we see that it is truly good. It may be a physical evil, but it is working for spiritual good. It may be a temporal evil, but it will surely bring eternal good. To whom is this great promise made? ‘To them that love God’. If there is in my heart a genuine love for God as he is revealed in Holy Scripture, he created that love, because he loves me. ‘We love him, because he first loved us.’ If I love him, it is evidence that he loves me and will do me good, nothing but good. ‘To them who are the called’. Those who love God are those who have been singled out from eternity as the objects of his grace and separated unto him by the irresistible call of the Holy Spirit. This is that effectual call of God the Holy Spirit which gives life to dead sinners and creates in their hearts faith and love towards God. If you are one of the called ones, this promise is to you. The promise is sure, because it is ‘according to his purpose’. Rejoice! ‘All things work together for good’ because God in eternity purposed to do us good, and he rules the universe ‘according to his purpose’.
