The lengthy course of a legal process can mean... - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns?
Romans 8: 33.34.

The lengthy course of a legal process can mean years of uncertainty for the accused as it goes through the various stages until the final verdict is pronounced. When, on the other hand, it is a question of God's verdict concerning His elect, we do not find this oppressive uncertainty.

The first chapters of the epistle to the Romans show us how a sinner is convicted. If he, however, confesses his sins and believes in the Lord Jesus and His blood, he is pronounced free of all guilt. Today's verse expresses the finality of this acquittal. An appeal against this verdict is impossible: "It is God who justifies." The final verdict has been long since pronounced by the highest court of all. For anyone who takes God at His word and claims the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus and God's promises for himself by faith the slightest uncertainty no longer exists.

There is indeed still the accuser of the brethren (cf. ), who endeavours to bring a charge against them before God. But his charge is inadmissible before the supreme Judge. "It is God who justifies." His verdict cannot be revised.

What is perilous is the enemy's attempt to lead God's children into self-incrimination and doubt. Then we need to stand firmly and consciously on God's Word, e.g. the verses from Romans 8, and thus unmask and reject the devil's insinuations as lies.

"What though the accuser roar
Of ills that I have done.
I know them well, and thousands more:
Jehovah findeth none."
(S. W.Gandy)

Today‘s reading: Numbers 23: 1 - 12 · Matthew 13: 36 - 43