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 GOD IS FOR ME

Psalm 56:9-10

“You are my source of strength. I will wait for You. For God is my refuge. The God who loves me (who is for me) will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies.”

St. Paul writes in Romans 8:31, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” The Eternal, Infinite, Holy Trinity being for us is infinitely greater that anyone or anything that could ever set itself against us. As St. John states in 1st John 4:4, “Greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world.”

If God is for me, what can mortal man do to me? One may be able to cause my physical death here on earth, but that one can never harm me further. Being in Christ, having Jesus Christ be Life within me, nothing can separate me from the love of God. Eternal life is just that, eternal. Therefore, I will not fear because God is for me.

God being “for” me must mean that there is purpose and meaning in life that God intends for me to know, experience, grow, and mature in. What eye has not seen, what ear has not heard, what has never even been conceived in the human mind, God has prepared for those who love Him. (1st Corinthians 2:9) What I might dream of as the best of life vastly pales in comparison to what God has in store as I follow Him in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Now, will I choose to spend myself on the “life of my dreams,” or will I seek to live into the “dream of God” for my life? The New Life a follower of Jesus Christ has been given is NOT one that we know how to live innately. It is as foreign as life is from death. It is a life utterly dependent upon Jesus Christ from start to finish.  It is a new life, a new way of being, the only way to be truly human. The wonder of it all is that Jesus Christ rescues us from futility and brings us into His own Life by coming and living His own life within us. Christ in me is our hope.

Eternal Life is lived out in the believer by grace through faith in the Holy Spirit’s power. That sets me free from trying to apprehend life by striving to achieve it and sets me free follow where He leads by believing Him, trusting in what He has already done. God is for you. He has life for you to live into that is more than you could ever imagine. Meaning, purpose, hope, courage, and peace can be known only by Jesus Christ being all those things in you. God is for you.

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