I am apparently chopped liver over here.
Not to worry. I press on!
Here's a portion of scripture that has virtually come to life to me in the past few weeks. Of course I've read it all before but not in the way that I have recently and this touches on the topic of spiritual warfare that I suggested previously. I'm always using KJV on the board. I actually prefer it for myself and we've got a number of LDS related folks here who were raised on it like I was. I also don't like posting scripture with numbered verse breaks. If anyone knows of a Bible version that eliminates the verse breaks, I'd love to know what it is. There are instances on the board where I spend an inordinate amount of time eliminating verse breaks for the reader and for myself. That's just a personal preference but I'll leave the verse breaks here for reference sake.
It's amazing how some passages that you have been familiar all your life can suddenly throw a spark and hold deeper meaning. They make me think--
What?!?! I should have known that! Or like God is saying--
What I wanted you to know right now...is right here! You knew where it was your whole life, would you like to pay attention to it now? Good thing I was taught to memorize scripture as a child and can still call it easily to mind. But what I am saying is that there are times when I discover a deeper meaning within scripture that I'm well familiar with.
It's almost like I never noticed what it actually said. Something like that.
Ceebs when you take me off chopped liver status, I'd like to see you address the following. Feel free to put it in context of the entire chapter if you like. Or skip over this entirely if you don't feel like addressing it.
Romans 8: 31-39 (KJV)
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
