“Nothing Can Separate Me from the Love of God’
Brothers and sisters:
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He did not spare his own Son
but handed him over for us all,
how will he not also give us everything else along with him?
Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones?
It is God who acquits us.
Who will condemn?
It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised,
who also is at the right hand of God,
who indeed intercedes for us.
What will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
As it is written:
For your sake we are being slain all the day;
we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly
through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities,
nor present things, nor future things,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Through the years this passage has proved true to me–nothing separates me from the love of God. Life would have no meaning to me without God. Today I have been cooking and served the meal. It is always nurturing for me to feed people. I give them their basic need, and it reminds me that God is always present. Today people were coming at me from all sides–all wanting money–and I gave them what I could–my time, some food–some liked it, some did not. It is strange I see being present to people as the ultimate ministry, and it is in that presence that Christ becomes present. It is not about money or what you give them it is your presence. I worry alot about what people think and in the end it does not matter, for nothing separates me from the love of God. Deo Gratis! Thanks be to God!
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