There are many times when our heads and our hearts do not synchronize. We need to quietly affirm our confidence in God's relationship with us when this happens. This is the base upon which other Scriptures can help us most.
I have often drawn on these verses.
Rom 8:31-39
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? 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?
Having given Jesus will God now turn against us. Did Jesus die only to have the Father remain hostile of suspicious of us?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? 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.
Is God there as our constant judge? God has already accepted Christ's sacrifice on our behalf (ie we are justified) . Was that sacrifice not good enough ? And is Jesus now condemning us after dying for us? Of course not!
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."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. NIV
We are eternally linked to God's love for us. Always, forever, no matter what we do and how many shortcomings we have, how often we fail. God's love remains.
When I really know this I can live with my inner unsettledness as I have concepts that go deeper than them, concepts rooted in the unchanging love of God
John
NZ
