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IS DEATH AMONG US? In Romans 8:31 a core truth of the Christian faith is articulated in the form of a question: “If God is for us, who is against us?” Now, we can easily think of candidates for opposition to people like us: pain, boredom, phoniness, chaos. But if God is for us, the opposition cannot stand. He will be our companion when we go through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23:4). His strength is made perfect in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). We will have a home with him forever (John 14:2-3). The threats, struggles, and confusion that we live with, even if the sufferings that we don’t understand, are in his hands. God understands, and he is making something beautiful and good from all of the hard circumstances that we face (Romans 8:28). Yet recall that Romans 8:31 is a question: “If God is for us, who is against us?” Can we know that there is a personal God who has created the world we live in, who loves people and keeps his promises, who is on our side? Easter above all other days rings with the sure announcement that the tomb of Christ is empty— hopefully God is for us. The first ones to discover the resurrection of Christ and to begin to understand its implications were those of his fol