Against

When the whole worlds seems to be against you.
When your surroundings alienate you.
When familiar faces desert you.
When you don't feel God beside you.

It says that: "What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

Hmmm.....if that is meant to be a question, i would answer: "The whole world?"

The past 2 weeks have been tough. Well, who to blame, life is tough anyway. But when the world is against you, you're pushed far back, strangled, suffocating, barely breathing. And this verse came into my mind. At first glance, it may be that tough probably because He isn't for me after all. Probably i offended Him and i face the consequences. But think again, i got different insights.

When it was implied that nobody can be against us, it wasn't literally implying that no one can ever stand up against us. In fact, the world justs love to be against us (at least, me).
The world can be against us. Moreover, as it is written:

"For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

The verse is telling us that "Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us."

"We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed."

Romans 8:31 isn't the verse to wish one a smooth sail. It's a verse of comfort in despair; an assurance of victory in the midst of losing battles.

*All verses are in NKJV.