God Is for Me

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

May 19, 2025

God Is for Me

What shall we say about such wonderful things as these?

If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

Romans 8:31 

You may recall that I recently cited this verse on May 5 and 6. I am coming back to this verse again because it is one, I need to hear often.

Recently I was looking at that line in one of my favorite prayers, “I am not my own, I am thine. By creation and redemption, I am thine.” This affirmation guides me daily as I seek to make the life in Christ my way of life. That simple line can settle every debate within my soul – I belong to God. By creation and redemption, I belong to God. In life, my goal is to cooperate fully with God’s sanctifying grace as He works to form Christ in me, His beloved child with whom He is well pleased and upon whom His favor rests.

However, it is much easier for me to write these affirmations than it is to work them out, day by day, in my life. Too often, my fears, my worries do not testify that I truly believe, and act on, the affirmation that I belong to God. God’s work to form Christ in me is indeed a work in progress, and sometimes it feels as though my progress is at a snail’s pace.

My true confession this morning brings me back to verse 31. I’m not going to beat myself up and have a pity party, because I know God is for me. And there is more.

My Takeaway: Because God is for me, all those fears and worries and times I have fallen short, CANNOT stand against me. BECAUSE GOD IS FOR ME. (And you!!!!)

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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