Romans 8:23-28 – The Spirit and Hope

The difference is that believers have the Holy Spirit as a seal, a sure and certain guarantee from God, of the redemption of our bodies, which we learn of in Ephesians 1:13-14. Romans 8:23 teaches that we groan while waiting for the adoption—the redemption of our body.

The Holy Spirit doesn’t remove physical suffering; He guarantees future glory, not just spiritually but for our body. Many Christians misunderstand this, thinking the Spirit’s power should eliminate pain and suffering, but Paul’s simple conclusion is: we have the Spirit, and we still groan while looking forward to glory.

So, hope is essential. It is the fuel for life here in this world. We wait for the promised change when our corruptible body will be raised in incorruption and immortality. Until then, the Spirit teaches us to walk by faith, not sight, and to endure suffering with the sure expectation of the glory that will one day be revealed in us.

In Israel’s prophetic program, salvation included physical healing and the removal of pain—Christ healed because the kingdom was near, and in that kingdom death and sickness disappear. That was a true hope. But today, in the dispensation of grace in which we live, God gives a different hope: a hope we can have even while sick and suffering.

The Spirit doesn’t remove physical suffering. He guarantees the future redemption of our body, and we wait for the day that our mortal flesh is changed into immortality. Our soul is already redeemed, as Ephesians 1:7 tells us, but our body’s not yet. Ephesians 4:30 says we’re “sealed unto that day of redemption”, guaranteeing our preservation until Christ returns for us and our salvation is completed with the redemption of our bodies.

This is the hope explained through Romans 8.

1 Corinthians 15:51–57 reveals the mystery: at Christ’s coming our corruptible body will “put on incorruption” and “immortality.” Philippians 3:21 says our vile body will be changed to be like His glorious body.

In this life, our body, through the effect of sin, is a body of humiliation. It’s subject to wrinkles, scars, age, suffering, sickness, and death. It limits and cramps us!

The Lord will transform it into a body of glory. We don’t know, and can’t know, now the fullness of what this will look like, but we do know it’ll no longer be subject to decay or death, or to the limitations of time or natural barriers. It’ll be a real body, yet perfectly suited for eternity. It’ll be like the resurrection body of the Lord Jesus.

This is the hope of the body of Christ—we are already saved, but we wait for that promised glory.

Hope is not a wish; it’s truth informed by the Spirit and fulfilled in the redemption of our body. Romans 8:24 says, “we are saved by hope.” This hope sustains us here and now, teaches us to walk by faith, and keeps us looking for the glory that will one day be revealed in us.

1 Timothy 1:1 says that Jesus Christ is our hope. Titus 2:13 calls His return “the blessed hope.” Our hope is not only Christ Himself and His existence, but what He accomplished.

When His resurrection is preached, it has the power to save and to make us risen with Him forever. So when Romans 8 says we’re “saved by hope,” it means we’re saved by Christ, who is our hope.

Hope is a major theme of the apostle Paul.

Out of about 115 uses of the word in Scripture, more than forty appear in Paul’s epistles. The Old Testament mentions hope mostly as longing or despair; for example, Job repeatedly says hope is lost. The Psalms use hope as a verb, an action. But Paul describes hope as a possession, a sure expectation grounded in Christ’s finished work. Even in the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the word hope never appears except for once in a different context in Luke 6:34. In Christ’s earthly ministry, He didn’t yet reveal the mystery explaining what His cross and resurrection would mean for the believer’s future glory.

Romans 8 shows why hope is essential.

Paul has already taught our soul’s salvation in Romans chapters 3–5, but here he addresses the sufferings of this present time and the question, “If I’m saved, why do I still suffer?”

God has subjected us to vanity and given us hope. We wait for “the redemption of our body” in Romans 8:23, and his hope saves us—not from pain or suffering, but from despair, misery, and confusion in a fallen world.

“Saved” here refers to deliverance from the distress that suffering brings. Scripture uses “saved” this way in other places like 1 Timothy 2:15 and Acts 27:20,31. Our hope is certain because Christ rose from the dead. His immortal, glorified body guarantees our immortal, glorified body. Hope that is seen is not hope; we wait for what’s promised but not yet revealed. This is the believer’s strength in a present evil world.

Hope belongs to this present life. Once we’re glorified, hope ends because we’ll already possess what we hoped for. Now we hope because our bodies are mortal. God’s healing program for the body is glory, either when we die or when Christ returns, if we’re still alive then. Until then, nothing guarantees our physical preservation. No matter how much we care for our bodies, they still decay.

Paul explains that the mystery reveals how to live in a corrupt world: hope and walking after the Spirit. If we expect glory now, we’ll be disappointed. If we don’t understand hope, we’ll think the Christian life is only misery. Hope is God’s provision for suffering.

2 Corinthians 5:6–8 teaches that we are “absent from the Lord” while in this body, so we “walk by faith, not by sight.” Faith is “the substance of things hoped for”, says Hebrews 11:1.

When glory comes, faith of that kind ends because we’ll see Christ. For now, we live confidently because of what Scripture tells us what God will do, and we trust the Word of God more than anything we see, feel or touch in this life.

Hope shines in suffering, not in glory. It’s God’s help for distress and weakness, and we saw one example of that previously in the story of Horatio Spafford and his hymn It Is Well. We also recorded an article called It Is Well, based on this hymn.

We saw in Romans 5 that tribulation works patience, experience, and hope. Hope lets believers live in peace even in an evil world.

Without hope, Christians become miserable.

1 Corinthians 15:12-19 says that if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are “most miserable.” We see sin clearly, feel the conflict of flesh and Spirit. Without hope, even Christian service becomes crushing. Hope is the Spirit’s work that sustains us until glory.

We’re not saved from pain and suffering, but from the despair that comes from living in corrupt, mortal flesh. Hope gives purpose in suffering. Many Christians miss this because they don’t understand how the Spirit works in this dispensation.

Philippians 4:13 says,

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Christ strengthens us through the hope of glory, as Colossians 1:27 tells us, not by removing suffering.

Romans 8:25 says,

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Paul’s teaching us how to think about life now: we walk by faith, not sight. We possess unseen spiritual blessings—redemption, forgiveness, reconciliation and we wait for unseen future blessings like glorification and immortality.

2 Corinthians 4:18 says,

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Our soul and spirit, grace, love, forgiveness—these unseen things matter more than what we see, feel or touch in the physical. God Himself is Spirit, and we worship Him in spirit and truth.

So, we wait with patience for the redemption of our body. This is the Christian walk: not proving ourselves by works, but patiently trusting God’s promise of future glory. Waiting is hard, especially in suffering, but God uses patience to strengthen the inner man.

Galatians 5:5 connects hope and the Spirit:

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Many Christians know the words “hope” and “Holy Spirit,” but don’t understand what the Spirit is doing or how He works in us today. Romans 8 teaches that the Spirit produces hope—certain, unseen, eternal hope that sustains us until glory.

By faith we already have Christ’s righteousness as we saw in Romans 4–5, but the glory that belongs to that righteousness obviously hasn’t appeared yet. So we wait for it through the Spirit. Romans 8 says we wait “with patience.” Galatians 5 says we wait “through the Spirit.” Patience comes from the Spirit’s work in us.

Hope and patience are not natural; they’re produced by the Holy Spirit through God’s Word.

This is the fruit of the Spirit—long‑suffering, joy, peace—so believers can live in suffering with hope. Christians who live in misery are not walking after the Spirit, because the Spirit teaches us to face pain with confidence in that future glory. Even on the deathbed, the Spirit enables a believer to say, “glory’s almost here.”

Lack of hope, Hopelessness, is failing to walk after the Spirit, which is simply disregarding the words God has given us to strengthen us. It’s walking according to the course of this world rather than walking according to the course of the knowledge of God’s Word and His sure and certain promises.

Paul shows this in 2 Corinthians 6.

A true minister is approved “in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.” Ministry is proven in suffering, not comfort. The question is: when trouble comes, do we respond with patience, knowledge, love, and the Holy Ghost as in 2 Corinthians 6:6–7, or do we give up?

Romans 8:6 calls this being “spiritually minded,” which is life and peace,

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

Carnally minded is thinking according to the flesh and this natural world, and it leads only to misery. Sure, this world gives times of excitement and happiness, but they’re temporary, and hanging over the shoulder of life in this world is the awful spectre of suffering and death. We need to know how to deal with that reality.

God gives power today, but not the power people want—He doesn’t remove pain. Instead, He gives inner strength so that we can be as 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 describes,

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Hope saves us from despair. Stress comes when we trust temporal things, but hope rests in eternal things.

With hope, even if we lose everything, our confidence in Christ remains.

This hope changes how we face sickness and suffering. We may desire healing, but even when healing is impossible, the believer’s hope brings comfort.

2 Corinthians 4:16 says,

… though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

The body decays, but the inner man can be strengthened continually. Unlike the flesh, the inner man has no limit—“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

So the Christian’s daily challenge is to renew the inner man. Ephesians 3:16 shows the Spirit strengthens the inner man with hope. Romans 15:4 says Scripture gives “patience and comfort… that we might have hope.” The Word teaches us God’s long‑suffering, His faithfulness, and His promises, so we can endure.

Hope requires faith—the substance ot the foundation or the structure of the things hoped for—and faith comes by hearing God’s Word.

Hope also requires confidence, gained through experience as we apply truth in real suffering. We learn that prayer works, the Spirit works, and God works—not to remove pain, but to strengthen the inner man with patience, peace, joy, and love. This produces a different response to life’s pressures. Even if we lose everything, our hope in Christ remains.

When we apply God’s Word as He intended, it works. That produces confidence—an assurance gained through experience.

Romans 15:13 says,

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

When Scripture gives us peace, patience, and hope in suffering, that’s the Spirit’s power working in us. God purposed salvation, Christ accomplished it, and the Spirit enables us to partake of it.

Paul praises the Thessalonians for this.

Their “work of faith,” “labour of love,” and “patience of hope” in 1 Thessalonians 1:3-5 showed that the Word was working in them. They endured persecution with hope. Paul says the gospel came to them “in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance”. This was not miracles—it was the Spirit producing hope, patience, and steadfastness through the Word. In 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Paul says the Word “works effectually in you that believe.”

Romans 8:26 continues:

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

After describing hope, Paul shows the Spirit’s role in sustaining us. The Spirit makes hope “not ashamed,” says Romans 5:5, by shedding abroad the love of God—explained through Christ’s death for sinners.

The Spirit gives life, frees us from the law, assures us we are accepted with God, and changes our mind from fleshly thinking to spiritual thinking; we saw all this in Romans 8:2–9.

All of this is the Spirit’s work: producing hope, strengthening the inner man, and enabling believers to endure suffering with patience, confidence, and peace.

The Holy Spirit not only teaches us—He dwells in us (Romans 8:9). That means our future glory is certain. The same Spirit who raised Christ will also quicken our mortal body (Romans 8:11). He leads us (Romans 8:13–14), teaches us how to mortify the flesh, and identifies us as a son of God through the Spirit of adoption (Romans 8:15). He’s our seal and witness, confirming our identity and our inheritance (Romans 8:16).

Romans 8:26 says the Spirit “helpeth our infirmities.” These infirmities are the weaknesses of our mortal flesh.

The Spirit doesn’t remove them; He helps by giving hope, changing our inner man, and teaching us how to think spiritually. We can’t jump to verse 26 without understanding the earlier truths: the Spirit’s help is not physical healing but inward strengthening.

The Spirit teaches us that we’re not under the law, removes fear, corrects flawed thinking, and shows us what God has freely given us in1 Corinthians 2. He bears fruit in us—love, joy, peace, long‑suffering—when the Word works effectually in our heart. The Spirit sheds abroad the love of God, says Romans 5:5, by pointing us to Christ’s death for sinners.

Romans 8 is not about doing more works; it is about trusting the Spirit’s work. He helps our infirmities by renewing our mind, our thinking, and producing hope, and strengthening our inner man. Prayer is part of this help: though we often don’t know what to pray for, the Spirit intercedes, as Romans 8:26 says. Our ignorance shows why we need to grow in these truths. The Spirit’s ministry is to sustain us in weakness by teaching us hope and anchoring us in the certainty of future glory.

Romans 8:26–28 are often misunderstood.

Paul’s still teaching how to walk after the Spirit and what the Spirit actually does in this dispensation. Many Christians want the Spirit to remove suffering, fix circumstances, or give visible signs, but Romans 8 explains what God is actually doing, not what we wish He would do.

Romans 8:25 tells us that we “with patience wait” for what we hope for. Hope doesn’t remove bodily suffering; it helps us endure it, and then verse 26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities.”

Just as hope doesn’t eliminate pain, the Spirit doesn’t remove infirmities; He helps us through them. The Spirit’s ministry is inward strength, not outward healing.

Prayer appears here because suffering naturally drives us to pray. Philippians 4:6–7 says we may make requests to God, but the promise is peace, not the removal of trouble.

Romans 8:26 says, “we know not what we should pray for as we ought.”

Our instinct is to pray for suffering to end, but we often don’t know what aligns with God’s will. The Spirit helps us in this ignorance, and His help is twofold: He reduces our ignorance by teaching us through Scripture, and He sustains us even when we don’t know what to ask. He dwells in us whether we understand perfectly or not, sealing us and identifying us with Christ. His help is not the removal of pain but the strengthening of the inner man so we can patiently wait for glory.

This is the context needed before reaching Romans 8:28. The Spirit’s help is inward, doctrinal, and hopeful—preparing us to understand how “all things work together for good.”

When Romans 8:26 says we know not what we should pray for as we ought, yet the Spirit helps our infirmities, it means that there is something we should know, because God has given us His Word and the Spirit dwelling in us.

Romans 8 is not urging us to work harder or perform more, or better; it’s teaching us to simply trust the Spirit’s work in us. Before Paul ever describes Christian service, he first shows how the Spirit equips our inner man.

Even when we don’t know what we need, the Spirit works according to what God knows we need. Galatians 5 shows this clearly: the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, long‑suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. None of these removes suffering; they strengthen the inner man. This is the Spirit’s real ministry.

Our problem is that we often don’t recognise the fact that God knows more about us and what we need than we do.

Day-to-day life and the things of this world are powerful magnets that pull us away from the recognition of the spiritual world and tend to make the spiritual things, and God, seem somehow secondary or not that important up against those daily challenges of life. However, living that way only ensures that our pain and suffering, when it inevitably comes, has no remedy.

Galatians 5 warns that relying on keeping the law or fleshly effort profits nothing.

The Spirit dwells in us, seals us, and bears fruit freely by grace. So when Romans 8 says we don’t pray as we ought, it means our natural prayers—usually asking for suffering to be removed—miss what God’s doing. Praying for the Spirit’s fruit aligns with His will: “Lord, give me love, peace, patience, joy and temperance in this trial.”

Philippians 1:19–20 shows Paul living this out. Even in prison, he says Christ can be magnified in his body “whether by life or by death.” He needed the Spirit’s supply, not a change in circumstances. God’s will is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth, so says 1 Timothy 2:3–4, and the Spirit equips us for that work.

Romans 8:26 reminds us that the Spirit helps our infirmities by teaching, strengthening, and interceding—giving us what we truly need, even when we don’t know what we truly need.

Galatians 5:16–17 shows the conflict between flesh and Spirit.

We tend to pray for what the flesh wants—relief, escape or comfort—without seeing the bigger picture of God’s will. Under grace, God’s not obligated to grant our requests. He’s not a genie, a vending machine, or a covenant partner. Israel prayed under covenants; we pray under grace. That means God answers according to His purpose, not our demands.

Many Christians misunderstand prayer because they mix covenant promises like Matthew 7:7 (“ask and it shall be given”) with this dispensation.

Those promises belonged to Spirit‑filled Israel under the New Covenant, where the Spirit literally gave them words, as Matthew 10:19 says. In contrast, Romans 8 teaches that we often don’t know what to ask, and the Spirit helps our ignorance.

Prayer is not controlling God; it’s letting God control us. The Spirit intercedes, aligning our weak, confused prayers with God’s will. Philippians 4:6–7 shows the real promise: not that God removes suffering, but that He gives peace. Prayer activates the spiritual understanding that the Spirit has taught us.

Romans 8:26 reminds us that prayer and the Spirit go together. We pray imperfectly; the Spirit intercedes perfectly. We don’t always know what we ought to ask, but the Spirit helps our infirmities and keeps us anchored in God’s will.

Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 10:19–20 not to worry about what to say, because under Israel’s New Covenant the Spirit would give them the words. At Pentecost, Peter spoke by the Spirit’s direct utterance.

That’s not how prayer works in this dispensation.

Romans 8:26 says we “know not what we should pray for as we ought,” the exact opposite of Matthew 10. Today the Spirit doesn’t speak through our mouths; He works in our inner man as we trust His Word.

This means prayer now requires faith, not sight. We don’t feel the Spirit dwelling in us, but Scripture says He does, so we know it by faith. We don’t hear His intercession, but Romans 8 says He makes it. We just need to trust what God says the Spirit is doing.

Israel had what we might call “ask and receive” promises, as Matthew 21:22 shows, because the Spirit supplied their words. We must learn what to pray for through Scripture and spiritual understanding.

Ephesians 3:20 gives our prayer promise: God is able to do “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think,” according to the Spirit’s power in us. He answers beyond our requests, according to His will.

Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 3 shows what we truly need: inner strength by the Spirit, Christ dwelling comfortably in our hearts by faith, being rooted in love, comprehending the breadth and depth of Christ, and being filled with God’s fullness. These requests align with God’s purpose and surpass our usual prayers for changed circumstances.

When we pray half‑ignorant prayers, the Spirit stands between our weakness and God’s perfect knowledge. God knows the Spirit’s mind, and the Spirit knows our groanings because He dwells in us. What a great comfort! Even when we can’t speak, God knows.

“Groanings which cannot be uttered” are our groanings—our physical pain, confusion, and our inward distress. They’re not Spirit‑uttered sounds or tongues. They’re the silent groanings of a suffering believer who often can’t express what’s wrong or what to ask. The Spirit intercedes in those moments, not by producing words through us, but by representing our need before God.

This removes the pressure of trying to be eloquent in prayer and using flowery words. Prayer under grace doesn’t depend on our perfect utterance. The Spirit supplies what we can’t.

Now Romans 8:27 adds,

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

The Holy Spirit intercedes according to the will of God. God searches the hearts, and the Spirit searches all things—even the deep things of God—and He dwells in us.

So when we pray, we’re not speaking to a distant God; the God who searches hearts is present; He’s within us by His Spirit.

This is the promise of Romans 8: the Spirit helps, teaches, intercedes, and carries our weakness before God. Our part is to learn! Learn from His Word!

It also means God knows our intentions, our ignorance, and our needs before we ask.

The Spirit’s indwelling is a comfort: He knows our pain, our confusion, and our unspoken groanings. Even when we can’t utter a prayer, He intercedes.

God’s already provided what we need in Scripture—truths written long before we understood them. As we grow, verses we’ve carried for years suddenly give hope or clarity. God knew our need before we did.

We just trust what the Spirit has inspired. Though the Bible is ancient, it contains exactly what God prepared for us. Romans 8:26–27 teaches that God hears us because He’s in us by His Spirit, and the Spirit intercedes according to God’s will, giving us spiritual understanding, fruit of the Spirit, and inward strength—not always what we think we need.

To benefit from this intercession, we must know God’s will that Scripture reveals.

1Corinthians 2 says the Spirit searches all things and reveals what God has prepared. We have the Spirit so we “might know” the things freely given to us. We ought to grow in spiritual understanding, as Paul prays in Colossians 1:9.

Prayer connects us to what we know and to the Spirit within, but even when we don’t know, God knows—and the Spirit intercedes.

Romans 8:28 follows Paul’s point that the Spirit intercedes “according to the will of God.” Because of that, we know something: Let’s read,

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

As usual, the context matters. Verse 26 showed we know not what to pray for; verse 27 showed God knows the mind of the Spirit; verse 28 shows we know certain truths already taught in Romans.

What do we know?

Romans 5:5—our hope will not be ashamed because the Spirit is given.

Romans 5:9—we shall be saved from wrath.

Romans 5:11—we have now received the atonement.

Romans 8:11—the Spirit will quicken our mortal bodies.

Romans 8:17—we are children and heirs, waiting for glory.

Romans 8:18—the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come.

Romans 8:19–23—we wait with earnest expectation for the manifestation of the sons of God and the redemption of our body.

These are the “good” things. The good is God’s purpose, not our personal plans. “All things” refers to every condition—suffering or ease, life or death, as Philippians 1:20 shows. Like Philippians 4:12–13, Paul learned to be content in all states because Christ strengthens him.

Romans 8:28 is not a promise that earthly circumstances will turn out the way we want. It’s the assurance that every circumstance—good or bad—moves us toward God’s purpose: our future glory, our inheritance, and the Spirit’s work in us.

This is why the verse comforts believers. We know the outcome God has already promised, and all things serve that purpose.

Ephesians 1:9–11 says God made known “the mystery of His will” according to His good pleasure, not ours.

His purpose is in Himself, and His plan is to gather all things in Christ in the fulness of times.

That’s “the good” Romans 8:28 speaks of. All things work together for good because we’re in Christ, sealed by the Spirit, and destined for glory. Even if life ends in poverty, sickness, or death, everything still works toward that good because our hope is eternal.

Romans 8:28 is not about earthly success or God fixing every problem in life. If our hope is “in this life only,” we are “most miserable” according to 1 Corinthians 15:19.

Many Christians reduce Romans 8:28 to “God is good all the time,” but Paul’s talking about God’s good purpose, not simply His attribute of goodness.

The verse only comforts us when we know God’s will, already taught in Romans: salvation by grace, the Spirit’s indwelling, our future glorification, and the redemption of our body.

This verse does not teach that every bad event has a divine reason. Sin and corruption entered through Adam, as described in Romans 5:12 and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tragedies are not God’s plan. His purpose is to save souls, strengthen saints, and give inner peace and hope through the Spirit. The “good” is what God glories in, which is the hope of glory in Romans 5:2, a good walk redeeming the time in Ephesians 5:16–17, and the certainty that all things—good or bad—move us toward our promised inheritance in Christ.

Thank God that even in evil days we can know His will.

We’re redeemed from a wasted life, and now every breath is a redeemed moment to learn God’s Word and serve others. The light’s been turned on. Ephesians says, don’t walk as Gentiles in darkness—redeem the time, or make time count, because the days are evil.

If we don’t know God’s will, which we learn only from His Word rightly divided, we won’t see the good, and we’ll sit in misery.

2 Corinthians 4:9–10 shows us persecuted but not forsaken, cast down but not destroyed, carrying in our body the dying of Jesus so His life is shown in us.

We live for Jesus’ sake. In 2 Corinthians 6:9–10, Paul describes ministry: dying yet living, sorrowful yet rejoicing, poor yet making many rich, having nothing yet possessing all things in Christ. That’s the witness of a redeemed person.

2 Corinthians 12 shows Paul learning this. He prayed three times for his thorn to be removed, not knowing what to pray for. Christ answered, “My grace is sufficient for thee… my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul stopped asking for removal and instead gloried in his infirmities so Christ’s power could rest on him.

So when Romans 8:28 feels disappointing, it means we don’t know something that we ought to yet, or we’re not loving God as we think, which means knowing His will.

Only then can we see how all things truly work together for His good purpose.

If we don’t know His purpose, we can’t understand how things work for good.

So Romans 8:28 is not about earthly success. It is about God’s eternal purpose in Christ, the hope of immortality, and the Spirit’s work in us. When we love God and know His purpose, we can live with patience and peace in this present evil world.

God bless you richly.