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.

In 1 Corinthians 321 to 23,

all things are yours,

whether Paul or Apollus or Seifus,

or the world, or life, or death,

or the present, or the future,

all are yours.

And you are Christ's, and Christ is gods.

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 is so

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