Who Can Separate Us?

 

Who can separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or sword?

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors

through Him who loved us.

-Romans 8:35, 37

Paul puts to the church in Rome one of the $64,000 Questions of life:  Who can separate us from the love of Christ?  In our text today, he lists a variety of circumstances that would bring hardship to his listeners, but not separate them from God.  Paul then proclaims, I am convinced that this next list can’t do it either:  Death, Life, Angels, Demons, the Present, the Future, any Powers, Height, Depth, or anything else in all creation.

So what can separate me from God’s love?  ME.  God’s love is unconditional and omnipresent.  He will never leave me.  But I can choose to walk away.

Today's Summer Reading:  Romans 7-9