29. As sure as God's love for His own Son. He who did not spare His own Son, but gave

Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things, Romans

day 32. God strips every pain of its destructive power. You must believe this or you will not

thrive or perhaps even survive as a Christian in the pressures and temptations of modern

life. There is so much pain, so many setbacks and discouragements, so many controversies

and pressures. I do not know where I would turn if I did not believe that Almighty God

is taking every setback and every discouragement and every controversy and every pressure and

every pain and stripping it of its destructive power and making it work for the enlargement

of my joy in God. Listen to Paul's astonishing words in 1 Corinthians 3, 21 to 23. All things

are yours. Whether Paul or Paul's are seaface or the world or life or death or the present

or the future, all are yours. And you are Christ's and Christ is God's. The world is ours.

Death is ours, which I take to mean God reigns so supremely on behalf of His elect that everything

which faces us in a lifetime of obedience and ministry will be subdued by the mighty hand of God

and made the servant of our holiness and our everlasting joy in God. If God is for us and if God

is God, then it is true that nothing can succeed against us. He who did not spare his own son but gave

him up for us all will infallibly and freely with him give us all things, all things, the world,

life, death and God himself. Romans 8.32 is a precious friend. The promise of God's future

grace is simply overwhelming but all important is the foundation. I have called it the logic of heaven.

Here's a place to stand against all obstacles. God did not spare his own son. Therefore,

therefore, the logic of heaven, therefore, how much more will he not spare any effort to give us

all that Christ died to purchase, all things, all good, all bad working for our good? It is

as sure as the certainty that He loved His Son.

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