Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 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.
Paul concludes his great treatise on the benefits of choosing to live a sanctified life with this grand statement of proof that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.
Persuasion can be a very effective tool in our lives, depending upon who is doing the persuading. In Paul’s case we have no doubt about Whom the persuader is doing the persuading…It is the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God inside of Paul persuades Paul just as the Spirit of God inside me persuades me that nothing can – as in nothing – separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus Who is in me.
This is what we are to conclude of this world, and Satan and anything and everything that would seek to pull me away from God’s love. As long as my life is fixed on God He is fixed on me, and I cannot be separated from His love.
But what are we to say about this life, right here, right now? The economy is in shambles, and many have lost not only income, but their homes and their cars. The nation as a whole is reeling into moral chaos and uncertainty. Every part of our lives appears to be at risk. What of this present uncertainty?
We are more than conquerors in Christ Jesus. It is only in the living of life in Christ that it becomes apparent the victory was won before the season even began. Why: because God has said so. Every area of our life is a picture of what the Lord will accomplish because He has said so. It is a done deal. It is a won deal. We walk from victory, in victory. And nothing can separate us from God’s love along the way. Not miles, certainly. Not troubles, unquestionably. Not even politics, as strange as that may seem. God is the eternal, unconquered One in Christ Jesus!
- Pastor Bill
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