Opening: Do you tend to see the glass half full or half empty?
Scripture: Read
Romans 8:31-39.
Connect
the Text with Your Life:
- Did you need another incredible passage to get through today? Here it is! And while they might not be a Romans’ Road passage, verse 31 and verse 38 are passages to memorize and hold onto at all times and places in life.
- Do any of the things Paul lists in verses 31-39 specifically affect you, make you feel far from God? How should you respond?
- Reread this passage and consider what Paul says about God’s love. What new insight came to you?
Prayer
Focus: That we would agree with E. Stanley Jones: “I can
conquer whatever comes because Christ has already conquered. Everything I meet
He has already met. When temptation, sin, difficulty, opposition, misunderstanding,
criticism, fear, resentment, inferiority, pride, loneliness – yes, when
ANYTHING comes upon me to bully me, I ask that thing to bend its neck. When it
does so, I exclaim with joy: ‘There I told you so! There is the footprint of
the Son of God upon your neck. He has conquered you. I'm in Him and I conquer
in His conquering.’”
