I Am His Sheep

Meditations on

Staying In the Grace for Today 

November 4, 2025

I Am His Sheep

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1

When I read Romans 8, I feel like a kid in a candy shop. It’s not hyperbole to say that everything we need to know about living as a child of God is found in Romans 8. Scholars have written entire commentaries just on chapter 8 because it is so densely packed with revelations of how God intends for his children to be transformed by the death, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. As a devotional exercise, you may want to spend 39 days with chapter 8, taking just one verse each day to ponder, meditate, and open your heart for God to speak to you.

Romans 8: 1-2 are so important to me, I include this citation in my email address. But for today, I want to focus on verse one quoted above. I have often noted that one of my favorite prayers includes the line, “My life is not my own. I belong to God. My creation and redemption I belong to God.” The truth of our belonging to God is the substance of the foundation of our life in Christ. Our belonging to Christ is established by Jesus’ own words:

“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.”

John 10:27-20 

My Takeaway: In Philippians 3, the Apostle Paul described his life’s ambition as pressing on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of him. Yes, and amen. I too am holding on to the One who has laid hold of me; I am holding on to Jesus to whom I belong.

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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