I am with you

Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

God has not promised we will never experience bad days. Days of rain and storm. Days of sickness. Days we may loose our job. Days we may loose our loved ones. But he has promised he will be WITH us. He may not deliver us from the fiery furnace. But he will go in it WITH us. He will never leave us. No matter how difficult and hard the days might get.

That God is WITH us can be read in two different ways. He is with us, meaning he will not leave us. But it can also be read, he is with us, meaning he is on our side. He is FOR us.

What shall we then say? Paul asked the Romans. If God be FOR us WHO can be against us. Romans 8:31-36 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:“For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Rev Gøran ANdreassen

Additional scriptures for further study: Genesis 28:15; Deuteronomy 31:8; 1 Kings 8:57; Psalm 23:4, 46:1, 56:9. 94:14, 118,6, Isaiah 41:10-13, 43:2; Jeremiah 29:11; Matthew 1:23; John 14:18; 1 Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 13:5-6;