What shall we then say to these things?
If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
things? Who shall lay any thing to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that
died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God,
who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword? For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:31-35, 37-39, KJV).
There is much that we do not understand
in the tragedies of life. There is much
that we will never comprehend in the things we face and endure and there is
much we will never know … but there is one thing we can know. We cannot be severed from the love of Christ,
this we can know as truth. God's grace
through Jesus Christ is greater than all the sin of the world and God's
forgiveness is total and complete. This
is a great gift of God’s love that is lavished upon us in making us His children.
This gift will always be unfathomable and indescribable
even as it holds and sustains us. We all rest in the indescribable gift we have
in the absolute sufficiency of Christ in redeeming our souls when we believe
and trust in Jesus Christ as our Lord. We
may at times become daunted in the momentary pain of a season yet in the midst
of anything we face we trust in our Father’s love. We trust in faith, knowing
there is nothing on this earth and not even death itself which can separate us
from our Lord Jesus Christ. When
forgiveness is needed … He forgives. When
love and grace are needed … He brings love and grace. The powerful love of Christ is now and will
always be steadfast and fixed on us, if He is our Savior.
Here is the great truth and the solid
rock upon which our faith stands. As a child of God you cannot be severed from
the love of God in Jesus Christ. You cannot be cut off, now or in eternity. There is nothing … absolutely and completely
not a single thing in the past, in the present or in the future that can take
God’s unfailing, enduring and everlasting love away from being fixed on
us. There is nothing … including death,
things seen or unseen and things known or unknown that can separate us from the
Lord Jesus Christ if we believe and trust in Him as our Lord and Savior. No death can take away the gift of life we
have in Jesus Christ our Lord. Because
death is swallowed up in victory … the victory over death by our Savior on the
cross and in the resurrection. This is the celebration of the Christian faith.
It is the great joy of the Christian faith to know the ultimate love of Christ God
is upon us and we can never be separated from it. It is and will always be an indescribable gift.
“Thanks be to God for his indescribable
gift!” (2 Corinthians 9:15, NIV).
Suggested Reading … Romans 8
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