Hmmmmm. All things work for the good .... this verse gets abused, misquoted, mangled, and far too undervalued. In context of Romans chapter 8 on the spirit realm, this verse really says 3 distinct things:
The Holy Spirit just showed me that the armor of God protects your SOUL! Remember, the soul has 2 primary engines that drive our conscious and subconscious thought - the heart and mind.
I always remind people that we are legally saved or justified with our hearts, not with our minds (Romans 10:10). Salvation comes from the sealed and sanctified heart, not from our intellectual thought.
As I’ve written before, God isn’t fully 100% sovereign in this earth. God has NO ability to alter the free will of mankind, there’s a god of this world, from the day we are born our bodies outwardly decay, and…
Paul says in Romans 11 that the believing Gentiles have been grafted into ... an OLIVE tree. These are slow, steady growing fruit bearing trees that are deeply representative of the land of Israel.
If someone you knew held a gun to your head and demanded you make payment in FULL for the amount you owe them, and you didn't have the massive amount they were demanding ... what do you do?