What Is Going On

Looking at a notebook yesterday, I came across some notes from my studies in Romans 8. They seemed to me to speak to our current condition:

Re: verse 36—Psalm 44, suffering is not punishment for moral failure; it is (mysteriously) part of God’s purposes

Verse 38—“life” with its delights as well as problems, may seek to separate us from Christ, but will be unable to do so, since he loves us so.

Questions and assertions

God is for us–Who can be against us?

He gave his own Son–How will he fail to give us all things?

Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen?

God is the justifier–Who condemns?

Christ died, rose, intercedes–Who shall cut us off from Christ’s love? What hardships or persecutions?

Suffering is part of the story of redemption.

We are more than conquerors in Christ, who loved us

Nothing can cut us off from the love of Christ.