Life unfolds for us the way it is, not the way we want it to be. Life interrupts our plans. Unexpected events! Shocking surprises! Hurtful disappointments! Expect the day to have unplanned content. You can face problems from your spiritual center and overcome! Taught by the Teacher and coached by the Spirit, you can. Your Father is cheering for you while the Intercessor is praying for you. God has a vested interest in you overcoming all things.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, ‘For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:31-39 (NASB)
From “In The Steps of The Shepherd”, by H. Lamar Smith
