There are days when God’s love feels distant—when prayers seem to bounce off the ceiling and needs press in from every side. Romans 8:32 pulls back the curtain on God’s heart and reminds us of the greatest gift He has already given. Paul is saying: Look at what God has already done in giving His own Son for you; that’s the measure and guarantee of how He will treat you today. This verse is meant to settle your doubts, silence your fears, and anchor your trust in the unchanging generosity of your Father.

The Father Who Did Not Hold Back

At the center of the gospel is a staggering reality: “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all…” (Romans 8:32). Think about that. The Father did not shield His beloved Son from the full cost of our redemption. The One of whom He said, “This is My beloved Son; in Him I am well pleased,” was the very One He handed over to betrayal, mockery, lashes, thorns, nails, and wrath—for you. This was not casual kindness; it was costly, bloody, deliberate love. “But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Before you cleaned up, before you cared, He acted.

And this gift was not cold duty; it was burning affection. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Love moved Him to give what was most precious. He did not spare His Son so He could spare you. The judgment that should have fallen on you fell on Him. When you doubt your worth, when shame whispers that you are too far gone, come back here. The cross says: You are not an afterthought, not a project— you are deeply, intentionally loved at immeasurable cost.

The Unshakable Logic of Grace

Romans 8:32 doesn’t stop with what God has already given; it presses into what that means for everything else: “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?”. Paul is reasoning from greater to lesser. If God has already given the greatest gift—the life of His Son—why would He suddenly become stingy about lesser gifts? It would make no sense. The cross is God’s final answer to the question, “Will He really take care of me?” It’s as if Paul is saying, “Look at Calvary. Now tell me—do you really think He’ll abandon you in the details?”

But “all things” does not mean every whim or comfort; it means everything truly good for you, everything you need to become like Christ and make it home to glory. “For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity” (Psalm 84:11). Sometimes that good thing looks like strength in weakness, not escape from weakness. Sometimes it looks like daily bread, not earthly luxury. Yet the promise stands: “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of shifting” (James 1:17). He has already blessed us “in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 1:3). Nothing truly needful will ever be withheld.

Living Like Children of Generous Promise

If God really is this generous, it should change how we walk into each day. We don’t come to prayer as beggars trying to twist the arm of a reluctant God; we come as children to a Father who delights to give. “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). So we come boldly: “Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Hebrews 4:16). Your needs are not an annoyance to Him; they are an opportunity for Him to display His heart. Ask big. Ask often. Ask in faith, trusting His wisdom in how He answers.

And as we receive, we are freed to give. If our Father has promised to supply, we don’t have to clutch our time, money, or energy in fear. “And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work” (2 Corinthians 9:8). The more we stare at the cross, the more we become cross-shaped people—open-handed, sacrificial, joyful. Even our suffering gets re-framed: “And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). The God who did not spare His Son will never waste your pain. You can step into obedience, risk, and costly love today, knowing His generous heart is already committed to your eternal good.

Father, thank You for not sparing Your own Son for me. Help me trust Your generous heart today and boldly live, give, and obey as one who knows You will not withhold any good thing.

There is a great deal of discussion now taking place about the lack of spiritual power in our Christian churches. What about the New Testament patterns? Brethren, the apostolic method was to provide a foundation of good, sound biblical reasons for following the Savior, for our willingness to let the Spirit of God display the great Christian virtues in our lives. That is why we come in faith and rejoicing to the eternal verity of Hebrews 13:8, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever!" This proclamation gives significance to every other section of teaching and exhortation in the letter to the Hebrews. In this verse is truth that is morally and spiritually dynamic if we will exercise the faith and the will to demonstrate it in our needy world. I think this fact, this truth that Jesus Christ wants to be known in His church as the ever-living, never-changing Lord of all, could bring back again the power and testimony of the early church!

So have I looked upon Thee in the sanctuary, to see Thy power and Thy glory. - Psalm 63:2

WHEN was it that David thus longed for God? In the midst of his sorrow. Even then the thing that he wanted most was not restoration to Jerusalem, or the defeat of his enemies, but union with God. Oh! that is a test of faith, one which very little of our faith could stand, that even when we are ringed about by calamities that seem to crush us, what we long for most is not the removal of the sorrow, but the presence of our Father. Good men are driven to God by the stress of tempests, and ordinary and bad men are generally driven away from Him. What does your sorrow do for you, friend? Does it make you writhe in impatience? does it make you murmur sullenly against His imposition of it? or does it make you feel that now in the stress and agony there is nothing that you can grasp and hold to but Him, and Him alone? And so in the hour of darkness and need is my prayer, in its deepest meaning, not, "Take away Thy heavy hand from me," but, "Give me more of Thyself, that Thy hand may thereby be lightened? "

I notice that this longing, though it be struck out by sorrow, is not forced upon him for the first time by sorrow. The second verse of the psalm might be more accurately rendered: "So have I gazed upon Thee in the sanctuary, to see Thy power and Thy glory." That is to say, as in the sorrows and in the wilderness he is conscious of this desire after God, so amidst the sanctities of the Tabernacle and the joyful services and sacrifices of its ritual worship, does he remember that he looked through the forms to Him that shone in them, and in them beheld His power and His glory. So the longing that springs in his heart is an old longing. He remembers that his days of sorrow are not the first days in which He has been driven to say, "Come Thou and help me." He can remember glad, peaceful moments of communion, and these are homogeneous and of a piece with his religious contemplations in his hours of sorrow.

Ah! that life is but a poor, fragmentary one which seeks God by fits and starts; and that seeking after God is but a half-hearted and partial one which is only experienced in the moments of pain and grief. It is well to cry for Him in the wilderness, but it is not well that it should only be in the wilderness in which we cry for Him. It is well when darkness and disaster teach us our need of Him; but is not well when we require the darkness and the disaster to teach us our need.

And, on the other hand, that is but a poor, fragmentary life, and that religion is but a very incomplete and insincere one, which is more productive of raptures in the sanctuary than of seeking after God in the wilderness. There are plenty of Christian people who have a great deal more consciousness of God’s presence in the idle emotions of a church or a chapel than in the strenuous efforts of daily life. Both things separately are maimed and miserable; and both must be put together - the communion in the sanctuary and the communion in the wilderness, seeking after Him in the sanctities of worship, and seeking after Him in the prose of daily life - if ever the worship of the sanctuary or the prose of daily life are to be brightened with His presence.