In these verses, Paul says 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (ESV) or 'With God on our side like this, how can we lose?) (The Message)
There is absolutely no doubt that God loves us. It's written all through Scripture. But sometimes we feel unloved because of different circumstances in our lives and we forget that Scripture says that God will never forsake us. (Forsake means to withdraw companionship, protection, or support from somebody-Entourage dictionary) That somebody is God. And when we doubt His love, when we feel He isn't here, it's of our own thinking.
One of the hardest things for me to remember is the fact that God has a purpose and a plan for me. Everything that is going on in my life today is for a reason and as hard as it is for me to go through these events, I have to stay focused on God and believe what Scripture says, not what I feel. And that's a tough struggle for me right now and I know can't do it alone. I need other believers to help keep me focused on God and make sure I don't continue to create my own roadblocks. We believers need each other to remind us of those things.
Verse 38 in The Message says 'I'm absolutely convinced that nothing-nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable, NOTHING can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus, our Master, has embraced us.'
That is so powerful and so clear. And the questions for us are: Do we believe it? Are we keeping God's love away by those awful roadblocks that creep into our lives?
With God on our side, how can we lose?
