Romans 8:31-32 ESV ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

William MacDonald said, “When a world of lost mankind needed to be saved by a sinless Substitute, the great God of the universe did not hold back His heart’s best Treasure, but gave Him over to a death of shame and loss on our behalf. The language of unbelief is, ’How shall He?’  The language of faith is ’How shall He not?’.”

This last statement here by MacDonald is powerful.  When walking in unbelief, I question God and in skepticism wonder, “How could He possibly do this?”, with a “Show me first,” attitude.  But the man who has a heart of faith is confident and can hardly imagine that God wouldn’t help him and fight for him.  There is a signficant difference between faith and unbelief.  Someone said, “Doubt is the father of sin, and skepticism is the mother of all transgression.”  And really, doubt itself is sin.  John Piper said that the root of sin is unbelief, particularly unbelief in the promises of God (like those in vs. 28-39).  So stop doubting, and believe that God is for me!

I like how “The Message” Bible paraphrased vs. 32:  “If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?“