There is one final passage of Good News in Romans 8 that I want to look at.
“If God is for us, who can be against us? 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? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? 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. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? [8:31-35 NIV]
“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 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.” [8:37-39 NIV]
Read that passage again. Remember that God is on His Holy Throne. Good News! That is the theme of our lives, that is the song of our hearts. Good News!
The last few weeks have been difficult personally. Add to that all the bad news the world is proclaiming. I found the weight of it all driving me lower and lower as the days progressed. Then, as God brought me to the Book of Romans, I was reminded that our lives are not bad news, our lives are Good News! They are Good News! for the world.
Let others see the Good News! in you. Let others hear the Good News! in your song.
GOOD NEWS! GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE! (AND ALWAYS WILL BE!)
