We have a gentle king who says "come to me for rest". He is not a taker, but a giver. He did not come to be served, but to serve. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

God is for us! What a truth. But how do we know? Because he gave Jesus up to die for us. Does guilt trouble you? Look up and see Jesus at God's right hand in heaven. We are more than conquerors!

Five big words - foreknown, predestined, called, justified, glorified - true of us in Jesus Christ!

Let's have the right view of our suffering. It is never hopeless and in it we can be sure that it will one day be far outweighed by the good life to come of God's glory. We join with creation in groaning as we await Jesus' return and as we do, God's Spirit turns our groans into prayers that God hears!

What a privilege to be adopted into the family of God and be his children! What rights we have and what responsibilities. And he wants us to know we are his children.

We do not face any condemnation if we are in Christ Jesus. We have been set free to do good works for God and one day our bodies and souls will be completely delivered from all the effects of sin!

The Christian life is an ongoing battle with sin. We love Jesus and want to do what is right, yet so often find ourselves doing wrong things. How we need to ask him for help to do the right thing, remembering that we have his Spirit and can say "no" to sin. And one day we will be fully delivered from every sinning again when Jesus returns!

God's commandments (and any law) can make us think about doing the wrong thing. The problem isn't with the commandments - it's exposing our hearts - and that's actually a good thing because it should drive us to Jesus!

In Jesus we have been released from being married to our old way of life that leads to death - we have died to that marriage. We are now married to Jesus so our desires totally change and we can love God and love our neighbour! May it be so in our lives.

We are under new management in Christ. Set free from a cruel commanding officer who promises a lot but only pays us death to belong to a new master who gives us the gift of everlasting life.