What Then Shall we Say to These Things?

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us who can be against? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died, more than that, who was raised, who is sitting at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rules, 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 8:31-39

I kicked off my 23rd birthday by sitting outside and speaking the entirety of Romans 8 out loud (after, of course, grabbing a delicious lemon raspberry muffin made for me by Liztowne and admiring the sunflowers she left).

That question, "What then shall we say to these things?" has been turning itself over in my heart all week. When you look at the previous thirty verses, it's a description of our freedom in Christ,  our freedom from servitude in the spirit of flesh and sin and death to the Spirit of life.  It's an expectant hope for our full redemption and adoption into God's forever family. It's a telling of the promise that if God has called you, you will be glorified in the end.

What then shall we say to these things?

No one can be against us

No one can bring any charge against us

No one can condemn us

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ

We are more than conquerors

Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus


If you have never seriously memorized Scripture before, or haven't in a long time, or have never done a larger portion, I can't think of a better chapter to make your first.