Saturday, December 14, 2024

Love of God, Through it All

 Love of God, Through it All

December 14, 2024


Romans 8:31-39 (ESV) 

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 gave him up forus all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 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.


Yesterday, we were talking about the brokenhearted. In the letter to the Romans, the Apostle Paul lists several things that could cause us to be brokenhearted: “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? … regarded as sheep to be slaughtered“ That’s quite a list of problems, but his conclusion is that even these hardships cannot separate us from the Love of Christ. All of us have seen hard times, though probably to as severe as the things that Paul went through. Still, though having survived ship wrecks and prisons, he kept his faith in the Lord and an awareness that God was with him through it all. Andre Crouch used to sing a song called “Through it All”. This song conveys the same message, that no matter what the problem, God’s love is with you through it all.


Through it all through it all 

I've learned to trust in Jesus 

I've learned to trust in God 

Through it all through it all 

I've learned to depend upon His word

(Chorus of “Through it all” by Andre Crouch)


One of the hardest things in life is the death of a loved one. We recently had death in our extended family and I remember this passage from Romans 8. When my own father passed away, I was encouraged by this passage. 


38For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 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.


For us, death is a finality, and is a finality for our time on earth. But for the Lord, death is only a transition from one life to another, and even death can not separate us from from the love of God. How great a love is this then that transcends life and death and is greater than angels and principalities! So be encouraged. Whatever problem you have that could try to make you brokenhearted, take heart and know that the Lord is with you and nothing can separate you from the Love of Christ.

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