March 21. God's best promise. 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 832.

The most far-reaching promise of God's future grace is found in Romans 832.

This is the most precious verse in the Bible to me. Part of the reason is that the promise in it

is so all-encompassing that it stands ready to help me at virtually every turn in my life and ministry.

There never has been and never will be a circumstance in my life where this promise is irrelevant.

By itself, that all-encompassing promise would probably not make the verse most precious.

There are other such sweeping promises such as Psalm 8411. No good thing does God withhold from those

who walk up rightly. And first Corinthians 321 to 23, all things are yours. Whether Paul or

a Paulus or Cephas are 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. It is difficult to overstate the spectacular sweep

and scope of these promises. But what puts Romans 832 in a class by itself

is the logic that gives rise to the promise and makes it as solid and unshakable as God's love

for his infinitely admirable son. Romans 832 contains a foundation and guarantee that it is so strong

and so solid and so secure that there is absolutely no possibility that the promise could ever

be broken. This is what makes it an ever-present strength in times of great turmoil. Whatever

else gives way, whatever else disappoints, whatever else fails, this all-encompassing promise of

future grace can never fail. He who did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all,

that's the foundation. If that's true, says the logic of heaven, then God will with absolute

certainty give all things to those for whom he gave his son.