Romans 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Strong words considering we live in a time and age when many times words hold no importance.
Couples make vows to stay together through sickness and health, rich and poor and everything else. Then when something strikes at the root of the marriage they consider separating.
Vows become words that have no meaning and the power in them is lost.
Contracts are broken on a daily basis and the consequence is court, judgments and bitterness that last a life time.
As we look into these verses this morning...let us focus on one thing. Who shall and that means not even ourselves. Sometimes we are so weary in our spiritual battle that we want to give up, all hope seems lost and the Word just seems like lots of words printed on a page.
Let us remember though here that nothing including ourselves can separate us from the love of Christ. He has deemed it to love us once and for all, forever.
Nothing is going to change His mind. He has demonstrated that love by His sacrificial death on the cross.
When Jesus gave Himself He knew that we would doubt, we would fail, we would recoil, but He went ahead and gave it all anyway.
Yes, because like the Lord says in His Word, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ", no one..."not any other created thing", which includes you and me.
Take a moment to sit and bask in that today...nothing can separate you from the love of Christ, yes nothing, not even yourself.
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