God's Will Shapes Human Direction

God Loves Us
God's Caring, Saving, and Upholding Love

God's Love as Victory over Death

Romans 8:26-30. The Message

26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

For Reflection

When your problems are bigger than you are, God will help you grow. When everything you tried to do failed, God will walk beside you. When you finally arrive at a place where there is no more down and only up, God will lift you. God will take you from lost to found. Just Give up on "do it yourself salvation" and pray.  God will work God's good in you. No Conditions. No Ifs. Just the accepting love of God.

Pray

Pray and give your life over to God so all the big things will shrink and the small joys will expand and displace all worry.