Read: Romans 8:26-39 Meditate: Romans 8:38-39 Reflect: I remember as a child—and probably into the early years of my Christian discipleship—treating prayer like a shopping list: God, I’d like this and that, with this on top, oh and while you’re at it, can we have peace on earth too? Then, there’d be times I’d pray for much more serious issues, like loved ones who were seriously ill. Recently, I...
Read: Romans 8:12-25 Meditate: Romans 8:24-25 Reflect: Imagine receiving an invoice to cover all that God has done for us. It’s a debt we’d never be able to pay. But this isn’t how God works. God doesn’t offer us a transaction: God adopts us into the family so that we become children of God, entitled to all that belongs to God’s household, heirs of the reign of God. Something within us longs to...
Read: Romans 8:1-11 Meditate: Romans 8:1 Reflect: What is your mindset? Is about wealth, comfortable living, fancy dinner parties and getting out of it what you can? Or is it about justice, equality and giving life to others? One mindset is living with the world’s values at heart, or as Paul calls it: living by the flesh. The other is about the reign of God, putting into place the values of God’s...