A Good Reason to Read the Old Testament

For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance and through the encouragement from the Scriptures.

(Romans 15:4, Christian Standard Bible)

“In the many occasions of trouble and sorrow in this life, the word of God provides needed comfort and consolation as it reminds us that God is still in control and evil is doomed. We need to be reminded constantly that the Triune Godhead is at all times supremely involved with us and that as a result “neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons … nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Messiah Jesus our King” (Rom 8:38–39).”

~ Grant Osborne, Romans: Verse by Verse