You know the feeling when a name comes up on your phone on a Sunday night and you look at it for a second before you open it. You have already written the message in your head. Your shoulders got there before your thumb did.

Paul says "about these things," meaning everything he just built. Then he asks what you do with it. The word for "for" is hyper, on behalf of, not pleasantly disposed toward you from a distance. And read the question carefully: "who can be against us" is not a claim that nobody is against you. People will be. Paul got beaten for this. The question is whether their opposition is the thing that decides you. Most of us spend our week litigating a case nobody filed.

Anchored in Romans 8:31. Part of a verse-by-verse season through the interior-life chapter of the New Testament.