April 2, better than Everest.

We know that for those who love God, all things work together for good, for those who are

called according to His purpose.

If you live inside this massive promise, your life is more solid and stable than Mount

Everest.

One can blow you over when you are inside the walls of Romans 8.28.

Outside Romans 8.28, all is confusion and anxiety and fear and uncertainty.

Outside this promise of God's all-encompassing future grace, there are straw houses of

drugs and pornography and dozens of futile diversions.

There are slat walls and tin roofs of fragile investment strategies and fleeting insurance

coverage and trivial retirement plans.

There are cardboard fortifications of deadbolt locks, alarm systems and anti-ballistic missiles.

Outside are a thousand substitutes for Romans 8.28.

Once you walk through the door of love into the massive, unshakeable structure of Romans

8.28, everything changes.

There come into your life stability and depth and freedom.

You simply can't be blown over anymore.

The confidence that a sovereign God governs for your good all the pain and all the pleasure

that you will ever experience is an incomparable refuge and security and hope and power in your

life.

When God's people really live by the future grace of Romans 8.28, from measles to the mortuary,

they are the freest and strongest and most generous people in the world.

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