Friday 22 August 2014

Nothing

Nothing
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?  
As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”  
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 
                                                                                                        Romans 8:35-39
Nothing can separate us from the love of God.  The passage is self explanatory.  Nothing can separate us from the love of God.  No matter where we go or what we do God is there for us.  The love of God transcends all things.
It was because of God’s love in his life that the apostle Paul could write,
            “I can do everything through him who gives me strength.” 
                                                                         Philippians 4:13:
Paul and the other apostles endured extreme hardships for the sake of the Gospel, they did this because they believed in what they were doing.  They loved God passionately.  They knew they were in a win, win situation.  That whatever happened to them didn’t matter because God was there for them.  Nothing could separate them from the love of God.
It’s easy to be a Christian in good times but what about in the bad?
When hardships come into our lives many people blame God.  They call out and say “why me?”  It is in those times, we should be thanking God that we can turn to Him.  That He is there to guide us through the trouble.  That when all else fails, we can depend on Him.
God’s love will never fail us.
God suffers long for us.  In human terms Jesus showed us how far God was willing to go for us, by dying for us.
In the trials of your life, do you really believe God is with you?  Do you turn to Him for guidance in good times and in bad?
Is he really the first person you turn to for help.
In the good times do you thank Him enough?
Think about it.

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