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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 4 of 5
Romans 8:31-39
Such an unfolding of the eternal counsels of God leaves the believer speechless. Every question that he might still have asked himself has found its perfect answer! God is for him; what enemy will risk touching him now? God justifies him; who will dare to accuse him from henceforth? The only one who could condemn him is Christ and He has become his sovereign intercessor! What could God refuse – the God who has in His Son given us the greatest of all gifts? He will "give us all things" with Him. Yes, including trials too, if necessary (v. 28). It might seem that these could separate us from the love of Christ by causing us to murmur or to be discouraged. On the contrary! "All these things" allow us to experience that love in a way we should never otherwise have known. Whatever may be the manner of the trial: tribulation, distress, persecution . . . in each case the infinitely varied grace of the Lord finds its expression in a special way: support, consolation, tenderness, perfect sympathy . . . For each suffering there comes in reply a personal token of His love. And when we shall have finished for ever with the earth and its troubles, we shall remain for all eternity the objects of God’s love.
