Today is Monday, December 3, 2018, and here is your daily devo. Too many Christians have a false idea that if God is with us, then nothing bad will happen. We think of verses like Romans 831, if God is for us who can be against us, as if they promise life without adversity. But we leave out the verses that say we may experience suffering, famine, nakedness, peril, and many other obstacles.
Rightly understood, nothing can separate you from God in His love and Christ, not because He shields you from bad things, but rather because in the midst of those circumstances He walks with you. He brings you safely through to the other side. We are tempted in the tough moments to question if God is with us, but the Bible assures us that He never leaves nor forsakes His people. Our hope is not in a God who keeps bad things from happening to us.
Our hope is in a God who is with us in life and death, a God who sees to it that nothing separates us from His love in Jesus Christ. Think about this. How does Joseph's story so far challenge our understanding of suffering in the Christian life? Which is better to never have to suffer or to know and experience the presence of God in life through the good times and bad.
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