“God is For You” by Brad Herald


Do you ever think that because you aren’t “good enough” for God, that He will not save you? Or do you ever feel as if salvation is for everyone else but you?

Romans 8: 31 (NIV) “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”

Knowing God is for you should change your whole perspective on life. Hopefully, you’ll stop thinking of God as someone looking down from Heaven, ready to yell “gotcha!” any time you mess up. Instead, realize that God is for your success in life. He created you for a purpose, and He wants you to succeed in your faith.

Romans 8:32 – 35 “32He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all—how will He not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?”

If God is for you, His Son is for you. If God gave His Son for you, He is not going to hold back the gift of salvation if you accept it. If Christ gave His life for you, He isn’t going to turn around andcondemn you.

Know that God’s good news is that He loves you on your good days just as much as He loves you on your “bad days.” He loves you when you can feel His love, and He loves you when you cannot seem to feel His love. He loves you whether or not you think you deserve His love. God is for you and there is nothing you can do that will make God stop loving you!