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The Sweetness of His Reign
he not also with him graciously give us all things?” This
means that God’s willingness to send his Son to be crucified
in our place is his declaration and validation that he
will use all his sovereignty to “give us all things.” “How
will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”
Meaning: he most certainly will. It is guaranteed by the
blood of his Son.
And what are these “all things”? They are the things we
need to do his will, glorify his name, and make it safely
into his joyful presence.
Three verses later, Paul explains how it works in real
life—in the coronavirus. What does it look like when God’s
infinite, blood-certified commitment to give us “all things”
meets the coronavirus? Here’s what he says:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
or danger, or sword [or the coronavirus]? As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through
him who loved us. (Rom. 8:35–37)
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