Paul is showing how God is in control of everything. God knows that we will be unsuccessful and that we will have challenges. The beautiful thing about God is that He is able to work things out in the midst of our mishaps. God is not put in chains when we mess up but His power is more clearly seen in our weakness.

Look at the phrase in Romans 9:6: "For
they are not all Israel, which are of Israel." What important message can we find there for ourselves, as Adventists, who in many ways play the same role in our day that the ancient
Israelites did in theirs?

It is easy to get caught to in the fact that we have the name Adventists like Israel. The name that we have does not guarantee our salvation. We must all individually choose to follow God in spirit and in truth. God will not judge us by our profession of truth but by our manifestation of that truth in our lives.

Prayer: Thank you Father for your promise of salvation. Please help is to surrender our lives to you so we may be saved.May we thrust in you and you alone. In Jesus name amen.