“38For I am sure that neither death nor life, or angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:38-39 (ESV)
I have studied the above passage a couple of times before in the past few years. Each time, God reminds me or teaches me something slightly different, but always related. This morning I am reminded that no one or nothing is “able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord”.
It seems like that is something that would be difficult to forget, especially as a Christian. Aren’t I supposed to be studying and following to do all things in the image of Christ and with that I am able to receive all the goodness that God has to offer? Well yes, but I also have to remember that I am man and prone to the influence of those things that are right there around me at all times. I am suspect to what I see and the rose colored glasses view of all that is presented to me by the world.
I have to remember that even though I may be distracted and influenced by the world and all that is in verse 38 and 39a from above, it is God’s love that He heaps on me that I am not able to escape. I have accepted the love and salvation provided by Him through the death of Jesus on the cross and because of that, I will never be plucked from His hand. I am His and He loves me unconditionally and demonstrates that as He allows me to experience life in the world. He knows that I am going to stray from Him and as I wrote in November of last year, His GPS keeps us connected to Him and we are able to activate it at any time.
We are going to stray off the path that God has in store for each of us. When we do, we have to remember that God’s love has not and will not leave us and that love cannot be taken from us by any other force. We are always able to connect to the love of God through our acceptance of salvation thanks to the death and resurrection of Jesus.
What force in life is driving a wedge between you and God? Are you able to identify it fully? Did you know that force is only separating you from your conversations with God and that His love is never separate from you?
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