So what are we going to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He didn’t spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. Won’t he also freely give us all things with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect people? It is God who acquits them. Who is going to convict them? It is Christ Jesus who died, even more, who was raised, and who also is at God’s right side. It is Christ Jesus who also pleads our case for us. Who will separate us from Christ’s love? Will we be separated by trouble, or distress, or harassment, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, We are being put to death all day long for your sake. We are treated like sheep for slaughter. But in all these things we win a sweeping victory through the one who loved us. I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord: not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or depth, or any other thing that is created. (Romans 8:31-39, CEB)
If God is for us, who can be against us? Christ stands in our place when it comes to the final judgment, and Christ is perfect. There is nothing that can make us not slide through, because God is for us and Christ has made the way clear.
Nothing will come between us and God. Not life, or death. Not angels, or rulers. Not things happening now, or things that will happen tomorrow. Not any power. Not heights, or depths. Nothing that was created, which is everything, right, because Genesis says that the world was chaos, a formless void if you will.
Powers and created things stand alone in a list of binaries. We seem to love binaries. We want something to be this or that, nothing in between, or no other options. But Life is not made up of binaries but spectrums. And even spectrums will not separate us from God. Our desires to push things into binaries will not keep us from God, or any one else.
Nothing can separate us from God’s love for us.
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