| Perhaps no verse of Scripture has brought more comfort and hope and peace to the hearts of God’s redeemed than has Romans 8:28. No wonder that it has been called “a soft pillow for the weary heart.” How do we know “that all things work together for good to them that love God”? Many times our circumstances are such that we feel with Jacob that “all these things are against me,” yet God’s Word assures us that “all things are for your sakes.” And we know it is true, not because we feel it, nor because we see it, but because God says so. His care for us is such that no testing or trial can come into our lives except by His permission. He “who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” permits chastening “for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness.” This is His purpose, and “all things work together for good … to them who are the called according to His purpose,” and this “according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” |
