Vazquez Counseling

Tonight, in my time of devotion, I meditated on Romans 8:2, in which the Apostle Paul says the following: “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” (New King James Version)

As I meditated on this promise from the LORD, I considered that as Christians, we are truly free from sin and death because of the life found in Christ Jesus. Because of His Life, Death, and Resurrection, we have been made whole. His is the Spirit of Reconciliation that we have with the Father. As Christians, we have no fear of death because death is merely a passing from this world into the Blessed presence of God.

Romans 8:2 above is the Gospel message encapsulated in a few words. My Wife and I have read through the entire Scriptures three times in the last few years, and as we read, we would notice just how many promises of God jumped out at us from every page of the Holy Bible. The promise from God in Romans 8:2 gives us great comfort because it takes away the sting of death.

As we continue to pray for our loved ones who don’t yet walk with God, we need to keep Isaiah 55:10-11 in mind:

“‘For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven,

And do not return there,

But water the earth,

And make it bring forth and bud,

That it may give seed to the sower

And bread to the eater,

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.’” (NKJV)

Our LORD compares his Word to the rain and the snow because those things go forth and produce what He intended them to do, watering crops, giving us water to drink, cleansing the Earth, basically allowing life to thrive. These verses in Isaiah promise that God’s Word will accomplish what God wants it to accomplish, just like the rain and snow do. To me, that promise means that our loves ones who are not walking with God but who have heard the Word of God in their lives and have those seeds of the Scriptures in their minds are those whom the LORD is referring to in 2 Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (NKJV)