Keep the flame!
George Sneddon
May 31, 2024
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Romans 8: 28-36 (NIVUK)
28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He 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? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who 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. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
‘For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
What is your thing?
I heard a pastor teach a message only the other day, calling me to recognise what my ‘thing’ was? What is the thing that I really need God to work for good? She went onto say that we worship things like comfort, entertainment, music, friendship and even family. And none of them ever permanently solve that ‘thing’ that stops us and pushes us down.
What is your thing?
Identify it. Own it. Open it up. What is your thing?
If you love Jesus, and he is in your heart, he will use that one thing for Good.
What does this good look like then? Is it more money? Will he change my ‘thing’ for Good that I might have more money? No. Will he change my ‘thing’ that I might have better health? No. Will he change my ‘thing’ that I will never feel the pain of loss? No.
It will be so much better.
Paul goes on to say that this ‘good’ that will be made of our thing is that we are predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.
Our ‘thing’ that holds us back, that smashes us down, that keeps us in prison, that worries us sick. That is the thing God will use to make us more like Jesus.
That is the good that can be made of all the things that we’re dealing with.
So, Name them. Own them. Open them up. Hand them to God.
Prayer:
Lord, I name our thing before you today
This is the one thing that I have been barely coping with
This is the one thing that keeps me up at night
The one thing that leaves me alone and distracted
These are the things I can’t lose because I’m scared
I admit Lord, it is holding me away.
Will you use it for Good that I might
be conformed to the image of your Son.
Amen
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