“There’s not enough.” At some point, most of us have come to the limit of our resources. We have things we’d like to do and places we’d like to go, but there’s not enough money or enough time. We’d like to accomplish more, but there’s not enough energy. In our…
For those who are in Christ, we can be confident that God is for us. And if God is for us, we are utterly secure! Of course, security in God’s economy doesn’t necessarily mean comfort as the culture around us defines it. Paul knew all about danger and hardship and…
When the Holy Spirit brings us to faith and life in Jesus, He makes us people of hope. Paul writes that the sufferings of this present age are not worth comparing to the glory that is to be revealed to us. The Spirit gives us eyes of faith to see…
What a blessing it is to be a child of God! In Romans 8, Paul says that we have been given the Spirit of adoption – that is, the Spirit has made us alive in Christ and brought us into God’s family, so that we might call Him “Father.” Four…
In Roman 7, Paul describes the war that is the Christian life: the inner being has been brought to new life in Christ, and yet the sinful nature wages war, not wanting to submit to God’s good design. It’s exhausting to agree with God’s Law and yet not be able…
In Romans 6, Paul teaches us that we have been set free from sin to serve Christ. In Romans 7, he goes on to say that we’ve been set free from the Law through the body of Christ (His fulfilling of the Law and dying for us). That means that…
