If God Is for Us

There’s a particular kind of anxiety that sneaks into faith if we’re not careful. It doesn’t show up loud and obvious; it settles in quietly. It whispers that you’re not doing enough, not praying hard enough, not holy enough. That maybe God’s love has conditions you keep failing to meet. That if you mess up one more time, He might finally sigh and step back.

Romans 8:31–39 slams the door on that lie.

“If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Not if you clean yourself up. Not if you finally get it right. If God is for us, full stop.

Paul isn’t speaking to people who have it all together. He’s writing to believers who know suffering, who know weakness, who know what it is to wonder if hardship means God has left the building. And he answers that fear head-on: the God who did not spare His own Son is not waiting for a reason to withdraw His love. He has already proven, at the highest cost, that He is all in.

I’ll say it plain: faith becomes a burden when we start believing God’s affection is earned. When we think love rises and falls with our obedience, anxiety is inevitable. But Romans 8 tells a different story. It tells us that the verdict is already in. “There is now no condemnation.” None. Not a little. Not on probation. Not waiting for review.

Have I had seasons where life hit so hard it felt like God had stepped away? Absolutely. Seasons where prayer felt like shouting into the wind. Where grief, loneliness, or fear pressed so close I couldn’t tell where God was in it. But hindsight is a kind teacher. Looking back, I can trace His fingerprints all over the wreckage, through people who showed up, strength that didn’t make sense, endurance I didn’t manufacture. He wasn’t absent. He was near, even when I couldn’t feel Him.

That’s why verse 34 matters so much: “Christ Jesus…is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” Jesus isn’t distant. He isn’t passive. He’s actively praying for His people. When we don’t know what to say, when shame tries to reopen a closed case, Christ Himself speaks on our behalf. Our security doesn’t rest on our grip on God, but on His grip on us.

And here’s the kicker: nothing can undo that. Not trouble. Not suffering. Not doubt. Not failure. Not even death. Paul stacks the deck with extremes to make the point clear: nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Nothing.

When you really believe God is for you, it changes how you live. You stop shrinking back in fear. You stop treating evangelism like a sales pitch and start seeing it as an invitation. We don’t share the gospel because we’re perfect representatives; we share it because we’ve been rescued. A confident faith isn’t loud or pushy; it’s steady. It knows Whose it is.

God is for us. Not tolerating us. Not keeping us at arm’s length. For us. That truth steadies anxious hearts, strengthens weary saints, and sends us out bold, not because we are strong, but because He is faithful.

I’ll take that promise, hold it close, and sip it slow, mug in hand. ☕

Prayer

Lord Jesus,
You see how easily our hearts drift into fear.
How quickly we believe we must earn what You have already given. We confess the quiet anxiety, the worry that we are not enough, that our faith is too small, our obedience too shaky, our love too thin.

Thank You for answering those fears with the cross.
Thank You that You did not spare Your own Son, and that You are not withholding love now. Remind us, again and again, that there is no condemnation left for those in You.

When suffering makes us wonder if You’ve stepped away, open our eyes to see where You have been holding us all along.
Anchor us in the truth that You are interceding for us even now, that when we are weak, You are speaking on our behalf.

Give us courage that rises from security, not striving. Make us bold to share the gospel, not as people who have it all together, but as people who know what it is to be carried by grace.

Let this truth settle deep: You are for us.
And because You are for us, we will not fear.

We trust You. We rest in You.
In Your holy and faithful name,
Amen.