Nothing Separates Us from God's Love

Our Love for God

God Commands Our Love, Respect, and Obedience:
Love and Worship God

Romans 8:31-39 The Message 

31-39 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:
They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

For Reflection

I have told my children and those friends whom I love that there is nothing they can ever do that will seperate them from my love for them. To me, that is the essence of my Christian faith.

I have had this covenant tested at least three times.  It is difficult to accept the consequences of following through. I have discovered that holding my tongue tested my resolve. But in the end, my patience was rewarded with reconciliation.

Pray

Pray so that you will be more able to love as God loves.

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