God is My Witness

 DEVOTION

THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS

GOD IS MY WITNESS

Rom 1:8-10

8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve with my whole heart in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God's will the way may be opened for me to come to you.

NIV

Well, having dealt with everything that seems to be able to deal with, however, there I one more concept that we must consider. When Paul stated that God is his witness to how constantly he remembers them in his prayers at all times, we must consider what God witnesses about us. We know that God testified about David that he has found a man after his own heart and that David would do everything God tells him to do. We also know that even though David sinned as king, it was said that his throne over Israel would last forever. This was prophetic regarding Jesus fulfilling the throne of David and that he came through the line of David, with both Joseph and Mary being descendants of David. God has testified about David, and Paul says that God is his witness. What we wonder, as we first said, what is God’s testimony regarding us. We do know that because we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we have the right to be called a child of God. In that sense, God witnesses that we are his sons and daughters. But what about our life in this world? What is it that God would witness about how we live? Are we anything like David in the sense that our heart is after God? Can God testify that he found us after his own heart and that we will do whatever he tells us to? Can we say that God is our witness and that we constantly remember others in our prayers are all times? Perhaps we might spend too much of our prayers spent on our own needs or wants. We remember a little prayer we know some Christians either learned as children or taught their children. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord, my soul, to take” There are seven times in that short little prayer that either I or me are mentioned, making that prayer solely about self. Are we teaching our children to be so self-centered that God would not be able to be a witness to how they constantly pray for others? Surely, Paul had needs, but he said that he had learned to be content, that he has had times of plenty and times with want. This is a learned lifestyle, one that requires study as we learn to know more and more about God and learn to want to do his will, to be the person that will do everything he tells us to do. We also come back to this question, what can God be a witness to in our lives?