Fasten YOur Seatbelt
September 8, 2019
Ready For Take-Off: Fasten Your Seatbelt
When the flight attendant tells you to fasten your seat belt, it is to keep you secure during take off and landing, and when there is turbulence along he journey. Our faith in Jesus is where we find that security in our lives as Christ Followers. At the beginning of our journey, it is faith that helps us turn away from the world and its sorrows and o turn to the hope and promise we have in Christ. At the end of our journey, it is Jesus who leads us home for all eternity. And along the way, it is the security of our relationship with Him that enables us to face anything that comes against us, for we are His and no other power can change that.
Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
MORE THAN CONQUERERS
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us,who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns?No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.