NOTHING CAN SEPARATE YOU

NOTHING CAN SEPARATE YOU

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" Romans 8:35

"Nothing you could ever experience, no matter how terrible or frightening, could EVER separate you from the love of God. No tribulation and distress you might suffer could be so intense that God's love for you is not even more fervent. No persecution could be so painful that God's love cannot bring comfort. Famine might starve you of food, but you will never hunger for the Father's love. Poverty cannot strip you of God's compassion, just as even death itself is incapable of robbing you of your heavenly Father's infinite love.

If you base YOUR view of God's love on YOUR circumstances, you will become confused. There may be times when you will ask, "How could a loving God allow this to happen to me?" You may begin to question what you find CLEARLY stated in the Word of God. God promised that you would NEVER be separated from His love; He did not say that you would never face hardship, persecution, poverty, or danger. IF YOU DOUBT GOD COULD LOVE YOU AND STILL ALLOW YOU TO EXPERIENCE DIFFICULT EXPERIENCES, consider the life of Jesus.

If you allow the death of Jesus on the cross to forever settle any questions you might have about God's love, you will approach difficult circumstances with CONFIDENCE. Knowing that there will never be ANYTHING that could separate you from God's PERFECT love, you will watch to see how God expresses His love in each circumstance. Don't ever judge God's love based on your circumstances. Instead, evaluate your circumstances from the perspective of God's love." from the pen of Dr. Henry Blackaby -- EXPERIENCING GOD DAY BY DAY, published by our good friend at Broadman & Holman.

Great Quote: "Jesus shines the light of the gospel on us both to expose our brokenness and to bring us to brokenness. I guess we should call this gospel brokenness, because only the gospel of God's grace can enable us to be completely honest about our stuff without falling into toxic shame or self-contempt. And only the Gospel can humble us, soften us, and give us the power to repent-or at least, not run away or rant. When followers of Jesus walk openly in this kind of brokenness-gospel brokenness-angels in heaven rejoice, and people without faith, or those with much cynicism about Christians, are likely to reconsider who Jesus is. Write this down: no greater beauty can be found at any point or any place in God's story than the times when God's people manifest this gospel brokenness-for that is where God's glory is revealed most clearly." Scotty Smith, Restoring Broken Things