Strength For Today – Day 12

₃And eternal life means knowing you, the only true God, and knowing Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

₁Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ₂He has brought us by faith into this experience of God's grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God's glory! ₃We also boast of our troubles, because we know that trouble produces endurance, ₄endurance brings God's approval, and his approval creates hope. ₅This hope does not disappoint us, for God has poured out his love into our hearts by means of the Holy Spirit, who is God's gift to us.

₃₁In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us? ₃₂Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son — will he not also freely give us all things? ₃₃Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty! ₃₄Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right-hand side of God, pleading with him for us! ₃₅Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death? ₃₆As the scripture says,