God Is For Us

Octavius Winslow Daily Walking With God

Romans 8:31 "If God be for us, who can be against us?"

With such a Father, such a Friend, and such a Comforter, who can wage a successful hostility against the saints of God? God Himself cannot be against us, even when the clouds of His providence appear the most lowering, and His strokes are felt to be the most severe. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." (Job 13:15) The law cannot be against us; for the Law-fulfiller has, by His obedience, magnified and made it honorable. Divine justice cannot be against us; for Jesus has, in our stead, met its demands, and His resurrection is a full discharge of all its claims. Nor sin, nor Satan, nor men, nor suffering, nor death, can be really or successfully against us, since the condemnation of sin is removed, and Satan is vanquished, and the ungodly are restrained, and suffering works for good, and the sting of death is taken away. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" With such a Being on our side, whom shall we fear? We will fear nothing but the disobedience that grieves, and the sin that offends Him. Fearing this, we need fear nothing else. "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear." (Psalm 46:1-2) Listen once more to His wondrous words: "Fear not; for I am with you: do not be dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness." (Isaiah 41:10)

Would we always have God for us? Then let us aim to be for God. God deals with us His creatures by an equitable rule. "The ways of the Lord are equal." (Ezekiel 18:25) "If you walk contrary unto me, their will I walk contrary unto you." (Leviticus 26:21) Is not God for you? Has He not always, since He manifested Himself to you as your covenant God, been on your side? Has He ever been a wilderness to you, a land of darkness? Has He, in any instance, been unkind, unfriendly, unfaithful? Never. Then be for God- decidedly, wholly, uncompromisingly for God. Your heart for God, your talents for God, your rank for God, your property for God, your influence for God, your all for God; a holy unreserved consecration to Him, all whose love, all whose grace, all whose perfections, all whose heaven of glory is for you. Trembling Christian! God is on your side; and "if God be for us, who can be against us?"

Gill's Exposition

If God be for us; or, "seeing he is for us", has an affection for us, which appears from the gift of himself, Son, and Spirit, and all the blessings of grace and glory; and is on our side: as that he is on the side of his people, is evident from his preservation of them from the evils of the world and their own corruptions; from the supports he gives them under afflictions and temptations; from his carrying on the work of grace upon them, notwithstanding all the opposition made unto it; and from their safety and security they enjoy by him, notwithstanding the power of their enemies; he is so for them, and on their side, as that he will certainly save them. This he has determined to do, he has sent his Son to obtain salvation for them, his Spirit to apply it to them, and keeps them by his power to the full enjoyment of it.

C.H. Spurgeon

“A Happy Christian”

The worldling blesses God while he gives him plenty, but the Christian blesses him when he smites him: he believes him to be too wise to err and too good to be unkind; he trusts him where he cannot trace him, looks up to him in the darkest hour, and believes that all is well.

"God Is With Us"

http://www.spurgeongems.org/sermon/chs580.pdf

God was for us before the worlds were made. He was for us, or else He never would have given His Son. He was for us even when He smote the only-begotten, and laid the whole weight of His wrath upon Him—He was for us, though He was against Him. He was for us when we were ruined in the fall—He loved us notwithstanding all. He was for us when we were against Him, and with a high hand were bidding Him defiance. He was for us, or else He never would have brought us humbly to seek His face. He has been for us in many struggles, we have had to fight through multitudes of difficulties, we have had temptations from without and within—how could we have held on until now if He had not been with us?

He is for us with all the infinity of His heart, with all the omnipotence of His love, for us with all His boundless wisdom, arrayed in all the attributes which make Him God He is for us—eternally and immutably for us.

God the Father cannot be against us. He is our Father, He cannot be against His own children. He has chosen us, He will not cast us away, He has adopted us into His family, He will never discard us, He has been pleased to ordain us unto eternal life, He will never reverse the decree. He was for us in the covenant of grace, when He planned the way to save rebellious man. He has been for us in the great ordering of providence—all things have worked together for good for us until now. We wonder how we have arrived where we now are, but surely providence, under God, has wrought wondrously on our behalf. He is for us in all His promises.

Daily Help

“God is for me” (Psalm 56:9). He was “for us,” or He would not have given His well-beloved Son. And because He is “for us,” the voice of prayer will always ensure His help. This is no uncertain hope but a well-grounded assurance—“this I know”. I will direct my prayer to You and will look up for the answer, assured that it will come, for “God is for me.” Oh, believer, how happy are you with the King of Kings on your side. How safe with such a protector! How sure your cause, pleaded by such an advocate!

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones audio sermon "God Is For Us"

https://www.mljtrust.org/sermons-online/romans-8-31/god-is-for-us/

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