God Is For Us

Peter L. Meney | Added: Apr 07, 2025 | Category: Editorial

One of Paul’s purposes in writing the book of Romans was to encourage the Lord’s people in their troubles and show how ‘the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us’. He tells us ‘all things work together’ for our good. This ‘all things’ is comprehensive. It includes all the divine persons and all the elements of the everlasting covenant. It includes everything created. Let there be no doubt, God is for us. 

God is so completely ‘for us’, Paul says, that He ‘spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all’. This is the greatness of the commitment God has made for the salvation of His people. The only just and fair price for our redemption was the life blood of Jesus Christ, God’s own Son, God’s only begotten Son, and this was the personal cost the Father was required and willing to pay. Paul tells us God ‘sent his own Son’ and ‘spared not His own Son’. This is God the Father though not to the exclusion of God the Holy Spirit, as we learn from Isaiah 48:16, or indeed, God the Son who ‘humbled himself’ and willingly agreed to come. 

From this we learn a sinner’s salvation does not come cheap. Your salvation and mine costs us nothing personally. It comes as a free gift of grace. Yet, mercy laid a heavy burden on the just and holy God. God gave something up when He ‘spared not His own Son but delivered Him up for us all’ and however this ‘something’ is to be properly expressed we should not be unmindful that a cost was borne by the Father upon the giving of the Son.

God ordained that our Lord Jesus Christ be not spared the humiliation of taking our human nature. Nor was Christ spared ‘the contradiction of sinners against himself’. He was not spared the cruel suffering of the cross or tasting the bitterness of death for us all. He was not spared the unfathomable breach of fellowship within the Godhead when His Father forsook Him in the hours of darkness. 

In sparing not His Son it pleased the Father to lay on Him the full tally of the iniquity of us all. To deliver His people it pleased the Son to bear all that was agreed in the covenant of peace. Christ made full atonement for every sin of every chosen sinner. He suffered the whole payment of our debt that law and justice might be fully satisfied.

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