God is for me – Moment to Moment (Bible blog)

This I know

This I know: God is for me. (Psalm 56:9)

For whatever reason, those words resonated with me.

“This I know.”

There is no doubt in my mind.

“God is for me.”

GOD is for me. The Almighty God, the Creator of this universe, my Father, He is for me.

God IS for me. It’s not that he used to be for me, but has now cast me aside. He is for me now.

God is FOR me. He encourages me. He strengthens me. He picks me up when I fall.

God is for ME. Not just for the super-Christians I know. For me. For me who often fails. For me who often sins.

How can I be so certain of this?

He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. (Romans 8:32)

Because of what Jesus has done, I have been rescued from death and now walk before God in the light of life. (13)

He knows my wanderings into sin. He knows all the struggles I go through in life.

He puts my tears in a bottle.

He has recorded them all.

But one day,

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away. (Revelation 21:4)

Because of him, I have hope.

He is on my side.

This I know.

This I know

In a time when the Philistines had seized David in Gath, David’s words ring with faith.

This I know: God is for me. (Psalm 56:9)

Do we have this confidence?

When things are falling apart around us, and everyone seems against us, can we say, “This I know: God is for me”?

So many times, God seems far away and it seems he doesn’t care. But David says,

You yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book? (8)

More, David knew God’s promises to him, that he would be king someday. He knew that God always keeps his word. And so he sang,

In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can mere humans do to me? (10-11)

But for us, God’s word is not something that is merely on a page, or something we have heard.

God’s Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

He rescued us from eternal death, and now we walk before God in the light of life. (13)

So let us remember and praise the Living Word. For as Paul said,

If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but offered him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything? (Romans 8:31-32)

And let us sing with David,

This I know: God is for me. (9)