35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.—Romans 8:35-39
I. LOVE. THIS...
Romans 8 is my favorite chapter in the Bible. Not only is it chock-filled with good doctrine which leads to right living, but it is also filled with MUCH comfort. By God’s grace, I memorized it very soon after my salvation occurred. In fact, it was the very first portion of Scripture I committed to memory after coming to the Lord. I am so thankful to God that I did! What a continual and ongoing blessing it has been to me!! God has used its foundational concepts to keep me walking in His truth rather than in the lies of my past. Many a night my anxious thoughts have been quelled and my heart comforted by the its precious truths.
There has been and continues to be much ongoing sorrow and loss in my life. This is not surprising. Manifold and variegated troubles come to all who inhabit the earth. There are none who escape. What a blessing it is, however, to remember that no matter what trials and turns my life may take here on earth, there is no one and nothing that can separate me from my God. He lives in my heart. I belong to Him. My Jesus will NEVER leave me or forsake me. He is my guide even unto death. In Him, I live and move and have my being. I am more than a conqueror through Him who loves me and died to set me free.
