Nothing Will Be Able to Separate

Day 205: Romans 8:26-39

“'No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Romans 8: 37-39 ESV

It is interesting to point out that the very thing (awful circumstances) that drives so many people (in the United States) away from faith in Jesus is the very thing that Paul chooses to affirm God's unrelenting love for us.

I'm sure Paul could have created a theology that could have placed the blame on something external or coincidental, but instead, he shows us that no circumstance can keep us from the love of God. In fact, these are times when God's love is most manifest.

The word for separate that Paul uses is χωρίζω chōrizō, and it can also be translated as leave, depart, or divorce. 

Even if trials leave us broken down on the side of the road, God's love is right there to get us back up again. A recurring theme in the Bible is clear among the giants of faith: Their lives were difficult. And not just an "I got called in for jury duty" difficulty, but a kind of difficulty that put their lives in danger.

Many places in the world are still, to this day, facing the same kind of persecution, and in most of these places, Christianity is thriving as a result.

May we not let fear cause us to step around hardship. Let us step through with the strongest power in the universe: God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

"Nothing in the course of time, nor in the expanses of space, nothing in the whole universe can sever the children of God from their Father’s love, secured to them in Christ." - Bruce, F. F. (1985). Romans (Vol. 6, p. 181)