Paul’s question in Romans 8:31 helps us answer Satan’s assault on the child of God. “What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
Devil, since God is for me, then who can be against me? You are much more powerful than I am, but I don’t have to beat you, because God is on my side and you are overmatched!
This means that there is no intimidation: God stands for us. We have nothing to fear with God on our side. You might argue, “But I’m not sure God stands for me. Can I be sure of that?” Look at how this verse begins, “What then shall we say to these things?” What things? The whole book of Romans gives us the solution to the sin problem and declares Satan’s purpose has been thwarted by God’s plan of salvation. More specifically, the entire eighth chapter gives us a Hallelujah chorus of victory to sing! Then, “these things” in the immediate context of the preceding verses help us:
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
God knew you before you were ever born and has predetermined that one day you will be like Jesus. Therefore, He called you to Himself in His great grace and justified you through faith in His Son and has glorified you! That culmination of salvation is so certain that although a future event for us, in the heart and mind of God that He can speak of it as an already accomplished fact!
Do you think that what God has determined by His almighty power in heaven can be undone by weak humans on earth? Not even all the demons of hell can stop it. If Satan could have you, he would and the fact that he hasn’t means he can’t!
Don’t let the devil intimidate you! He’s a big bully, and you aren’t fast enough to run from him, smart enough to outthink him, nor strong enough to overpower him—but God is far bigger and He stands for us! Stand in Christ’s strength alone. “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” (Rom.8:37).
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