My rally cry is “God is for me!” He’s for me. That changes everything. God’s not looking down on us ready to write us off when we fail. He’s for us. He’s cheering us on as we live to and for his glory. He’s supplying the strength to resist our enemy and watch him flee.
My husband and I often say three little words to each other. No, not those three words—although we say them, too! We like to tell each other, “I’m for you.”
When my husband says this, he means that he has my back. He’s cheering on all my endeavors, rooting for me to succeed and not to fail. When I say this to him, I want him to know that I’ll fight for him and for us. That his good is my good.
I love hearing Stephen say these words, and I purposefully say them to him. We don’t say them casually. But despite our very best intentions, sometimes we say other words that don’t communicate the same promise. Sometimes we act against, and not for, one another. We don’t always live out of this sense of “for-ness.”
But there is one who does.
My God is for Me
David said, “This I know, that God is for me” (Ps. 56:9). My desire to be for my husband reflects my heavenly father’s promise to be for me. Where I lack the ability to perfectly be for Stephen, God has no such deficiency. He is consistently and eternally for me. He’s for me absolutely.
In his Morning and Evening daily readings, Charles Spurgeon writes:
“It is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this delightful phrase, ‘God is for me.’ He was ‘for us’ before the worlds were made; he was ‘for us,’ or he would not have given his well-beloved son; he was ‘for us’ when he smote the only-begotten, and laid the full weight of his wrath upon him—he was ‘for us,’ though he was against him; he was for us,’ when we were ruined in the fall—he loved us notwithstanding all; he was ‘for us,’ when we were rebels against him, and with a high hand were bidding him defiance; he was ‘for us,’ or he would not have brought us humbly to seek his face.”
I agree with Spurgeon. “God is for me” is a most delightful phrase.
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