Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, Thank You for allowing us to be here on this earth another day. Thank You for our health and strength, and for all that You do for us. Thank You for always watching over us, and taking care of us, and making a way where there seems to be no way. Thank You for Your love, mercy, and grace, and lovingkindness. Most of all, thank You for sending Your precious Son, Jesus, to die for our sins. I give You all the praise, glory, and honor, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

Romans 8:29-30-For whom he did foreknow, he also did *predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (v.30.)Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified, them he also glorified.

Romans 8:29-Predestination-The word “Predestinate” is used only here and in Ephesians 1:5,11, where the meaning is the same as here(see Ephesians 1;5 note, “Adoption” and Ephesians 1:11 note, “Predestination”). It means to plan beforehand. Just as earthly parents make delightful plans for the future of their children, so God does for His children. The verse does not say that He planned that certain people would become His children. It says that He planned that all His children would be like His beloved Son, Jesus Christ. He made plans for “whom he did foreknow.” He looked ahead from the beginning of time to the end of time and saw His Son, and in Him all believers. This does not in any sense whatsoever take away from the fact that each person who is born into the world has a free will to receive or reject Jesus Christ as Savior.

Verse 31. Asks us a question. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

In verse 32., Paul tells us, He that spared not His own Son(He, God), (Son, Jesus Christ). delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

When God sent His son into this world to die for our sins, He gave us all that He had. He gave us His one and only precious Son. He sacrificed His Son to take our sins upon Himself so that we could be free from sin; so we would not have to live apart from God forever. When sin entered into the world in the Garden of Eden, we were separated from God. He could not look at us the way He did at first, everything was ruined. We could not commune with Him, or go to Him, He did not continue to give us all of the luxuries we had in the Garden of Eden. We had to work hard then, just as we do now. When I say “we”, I mean our ancestors. If God had not sent Jesus to take our place, we would die in our sins. There would be no remission for our sins, no forgiveness, no second chances, no nothing. We would be doomed to hell for all eternity. Everything that God did then, and does now is for our good. It is not to harm us. Yes, we go through things we do not understand, but it is for our good. Trials in life comes to make us strong so we can help someone. We never know who we are going to have to encourage in our lives. Just as God encourages us when we read the Word, we can encourage others by sharing the love of God with them, by showing them HIS love through our demonstrations in life. Sometimes we are the only way people see Jesus.

God has given us Salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. It is our own choice whether we accept it or not. We can only come to the Father through Jesus Christ, because He is the way, the truth, and the life. Anything we need, He will freely give when we do not doubt. When we ask God for something, we must ask in His Son’s name, and not only that, we must believe that we have already received it by faith.

In verse(33.) We are asked, “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” God justifies everything no matter what it is. God is our final judge. He is the One who makes all things come to the light through the Holy Spirit who dwells inside of us.

In verse(34.) We are asked, Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intersession for us.

We should be thankful that we have someone standing up for us in heaven when we make mistakes. We should be grateful that we have Jesus speaking on our behalf. Just think how it would be if we did not have Him standing and speaking for us, we would be in a terrible fix. It is wonderful that God is a for giving God! He loves us so much. Sometimes we go through so much in our lives that we tend to forget that. We forget that we have someone always looking out for us.

(Verse 35.) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (Verse 36.) As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. (Verse37.) Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

We are conquerors through Jesus Christ! Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. (Verse 38.) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, not things present, not things to come, (Verse 39.) Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We cannot forget what God did for us to show us how much He loves us. The love He has for us will never change, and we should not let anything come in between us for the love that we have for our God. We are to love God with all of our might, nothing wavering.

John 3:16-17 is another two verses that I go to when I just want to read about just how much God loves me. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.

Jesus died for everyone in the entire world. Everything that God does is for our good.