He Died to Forgive Us.

 What is your greatest fear? 

Being separated from Christ.

If we can KNOW that we can't be separated from Christ except we literally and emphatically choose to be over and over again, then we most assuredly can have the peace that knowledge brings.  If we had to live in fear that every little thought we had could instantly rip us from Christ, how could we ever have Christ's peace? Our trust needs to be in the knowledge that Christ saves us, we do not save ourselves. We yield our lives to Him in its entirety. Every thought we possess belongs to Christ. We trust as we kneel at His feet, or lay prostrate before Him, seeking His forgiveness, the salvation He alone offers, that He will give it to us by His power, by the love that is His power. We come before Him seeking this indescribable forgiveness only He has and we do so as often as we need to, knowing He is WILLING to forgive us! He DIED to forgive 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. 

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Excerpt - Articles on Romans by E. J. Waggoner Chapter 8

A Good Persuasion. 

"For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Isa. 30:15. 

"For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end." Heb. 3:14. 

Our faith is the victory. God alone is our strength and salvation. Therefore our strength consists in confidence in him. "Trust ye in the Lord forever;  for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." Isa. 27:5.

The apostle Paul had been "in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft." He says: "Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often,  in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness." 2 Cor. 11:24-27. Surely he is one who can speak with the authority of great experience. Hear, then, what he says:

"Neither death, nor life, nor angels, 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."

No Fear for the Future. Only to those who wilfully reject the love of God is there "a fearful looking for of judgment." Christ says to us, "Be not therefore anxious for the morrow." He does not desire that we should have our minds filled with fear and anxious forebodings. Some people can never be at rest, even under the most delightful circumstances, because they are afraid that something terrible will happen by and by. Now it makes no difference what may come, since neither things present nor things to come can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. We are assured that things to come, as well as things present, are ours. 1 Cor. 3:22.  Therefore in Christ we may sing:

"Let good or ill befall,

It must be good for me,

Secure of having Thee in all,

Of having all in Thee.