“Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” Romans 8:33-34

If you’re a Christian, you are Chosen! But even though you are chosen, you have an adversary – Satan. He will accuse you and tell you God doesn’t love you because you have sinned. But here this verse asks us a rhetorical question. “Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen”? It is not Satan that has chosen us or justified us, but it is God who chose us, and “it is God who justifies”. The one who has the right to condemn you has justified you – made you clean and whole in his eyes.

The second verse goes on to ask another rhetorical question. “Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died…” The one who could judge you is not judging you. In fact, he “is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us”. He doesn’t love you because of what you do or don’t do, he loves you because he loves you. He just loves you.