For I Am Sure

The world is certainly filled with uncertainty. Much of the anxiety and stress that we suffer comes from our inability to control situations, influence outcomes and confidently see the future. We take great pleasure in those rare occasions when we actually can be sure of how something will turn out. Let's face it, we'd all like a little confidence booster every now and then.

Notice the pure confidence and certainty in the words of the Apostle Paul when he speaks of the future that awaits him--the same future that awaits all who claim the blood of Christ--For I am sure that neither life nor death, nor angles nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39). Never in the history of mankind has a more confident and secure statement ever been made.

Life events, physical death, spiritual beings, people in power, current and future circumstances all have the power to alter our lives. Yet none of them has the power to alter our eternal destiny. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is able to defeat the power of God's love which adopts us into his family. Forever.

It is no surprise that Paul claimed to boast in nothing but the power of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 10:17, Galatians 6:14). His confidence; the confidence that says For I am sure, is the same confidence that we as God's men can take with us each and every day in our spiritual walk as we seek to serve Him and follow his will.