If God is for us
In the morning I read scripture from index cards that I have made up. Sometimes it is just a snippet of a scripture that I haven't taken the time to look up yet and write out officially. Once in awhile, I pull it out and look it up on the internet, choose the translation i like the best, print it out, and put it on the index card.
I hadn't pulled one out recently, but today it was a card where I had scribbled, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" For some reason I decided to pull this one out to officialize it today. I felt pretty strongly about this one, for no apparent reason.
About a half hour later I was listening to a new life live radio broadcast and this guy had called in and talked about his struggle with passivity. John Townsend suggested that he look at scriptures, such as, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Steve Arterburn moved right on past it and John said, "He needs that!" About a minute later John said, "It's in Romans 8."
Coincendence?
As Archbishop William Temple notes, coincidences occur much more frequently when we pray.
In any case, I looked it up online and chose the New Living Translation. Romans 8:31-32. Hope it blesses you.
I hadn't pulled one out recently, but today it was a card where I had scribbled, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" For some reason I decided to pull this one out to officialize it today. I felt pretty strongly about this one, for no apparent reason.
About a half hour later I was listening to a new life live radio broadcast and this guy had called in and talked about his struggle with passivity. John Townsend suggested that he look at scriptures, such as, "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Steve Arterburn moved right on past it and John said, "He needs that!" About a minute later John said, "It's in Romans 8."
Coincendence?
As Archbishop William Temple notes, coincidences occur much more frequently when we pray.
In any case, I looked it up online and chose the New Living Translation. Romans 8:31-32. Hope it blesses you.
What, then, shall we say in response to this? 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?
1 comment:
I noticed the radio spot with interest because of my tendency to marry passive men. And since the LAST thing I can be called is passive...that scripture is one that I have clung to often, though sometimes I can feel the skin sliding right off my teeth "cuz it's all I'm hangin' on by. I have often found that I have to quote that verse to myself to admonish MYSELF because I can be my own worst enemy. That is when I call upon my new recreated spirit to overrule my natural tendencies. To quote a song I sing to myself a lot" for I need you Jesus, to come to my rescue, where else can I go"
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