What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced 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 8:31-39, NRSV)
How many things get in the way of you going about your daily routine?
Changes in the kids schedule.
Road work. Accidents.
Your usual machine at the gym being used or broken.
Someone stopping to talk to you as you get ready to work out.
The usual clerk at the coffee shop not being there and having to explain your drink.
Seems petty when we read it this way, but not when we experience it. If you are a schedule person and something throws that schedule off it gets in the way of your life.
But Paul tells us and the Romans that nothing can get in the way of our relationship with God. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Not life or death.
Not rulers or angels.
Not things to come or things present.
Not depths or heights.
Not powers.
Not anything .
Wether you are alive or dead, God will be with you.
Neither a ruler or a messenger can keep you from God.
Nothing to come or that is already here can keep you from God.
No matter how far you think you are from God, He is right there.
No power good or evil can keep you from the love that God has for you.
Not anything can keep God’s love from you. Nothing can separate you from Him!
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