Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Who?
Who is the
mastermind behind ALL tribulation, ALL distress, ALL persecution? Who is at the
heart of ALL that is evil? Seriously, ask yourself who. If you believe in God, our heavenly Father,
and His Only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit- then you know who
is behind it all, who is at the heart of it all. And the WHO that is at the
heart of all evil loves it when people FORGET his role in all of it. When we
forget who is at the heart of every single trouble we have, we forget who is
there to help us with every trouble we have.
Who shall separate
us from the love of Christ?
Will Satan separate
us from the love of Christ?
We will face-
TRIBULATIONS.
Tribulations-
hardship, great difficulty, affliction, distress, trials.
We will face-
DISTRESS.
Distress- mental
suffering, anxiety, unhappiness, hardship, problems, physical pain, danger.
We will face-
PERSECUTIONS.
Persecution- unfair
treatment, suffering felt by persecuted people.
We will face all
manner of these, under every guise that exists. And the reason we will face all
these assault is in fact to SEPARATE us from the love of Christ.
Yes, if we LOVE our
God these things can be used for our ultimate good-
Rom_8:28 And we know that all things work together for
good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose.
These things WILL
happen to us and if we LOVE GOD somehow beyond our ability to comprehend,
through faith in our God, they will work for our good. Satan would have them destroy us, rip apart
our relationship with God.
Rom 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Rom 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed
all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
WE- Christ followers
are counted as SHEEP for the SLAUGHTER.
We are fair game when we are Christ's.
We are penned up sheep, easy to pick off, and Satan is the wolf in the
sheep fold ready to do the picking. And if we are KILLED, if we are SLAUGHTERED
for Christ as His sheep, then we are conquerors through our Savior! We are MORE
than conquerors.
Rom 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us.
Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come,
Rom 8:39 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.
We NEED to be
persuaded as well that DEATH, LIFE, ANGELS, PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, NOT the
PRESENT, NOT the FUTURE, HEIGHT, DEPTH, ANY CREATURE NONE of these things will
be able to separate us from the LOVE of God which is in Christ Jesus our LORD!
Do we believe this?!
We MUST believe this! We MUST!
Does believing any
of this mean that we won't have tribulations, hardships, any and all
difficulties life can throw at us- NO, it doesn't mean that at all! We can be
among those who face the worst of life's agonies and some may take that to mean
God is disappointed in us, that He has forsaken us. We know differently. We
know that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God, NOTHING. We must
believe, we must believe when we have no outward reason to believe, we must
have FAITH, the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things
unseen. And this is why we must LIVE in
the PRESENCE of GOD, by his mercy and grace, His love always!
Amen!
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