Have you ever thought that Jesus doesn’t love you? Or that He doesn’t love you anymore because of something you have done, or because you think you failed Him in some way? The truth is there are many people who are true Christians, who have trouble believing that God really does love them. And that He will always continue to do so. Yet we read in…..
(Romans 8:35)…..Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
The question laid before us in this verse is, “Is there anything or anyone who can cause God to stop loving us?” One of His greatest promises to us is that nothing can separate us from the love of God. No tribulation or distress we might ever suffer can obliterate the power of His love to carry us through!
As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:36-39).
This tells me so clearly that I cannot read God’s love for me by my circumstances alone, and that’s often my greatest temptation: “How could a loving God allow this to happen to me?” But the Lord never promised we would escape hardship, persecution, poverty or danger — (in fact, He promised the opposite); the promise is that His love for us would be greater than any and all circumstances we might have to endure. Consider Jesus, He went to the cross and died an excruciating death — He didn’t escape difficulties — He experienced them more than anyone could ever imagine! So, allow His death to settle any questions you have about the love that God has for you Christian. Don’t ever judge God’s love for you based on circumstances alone, but rather evaluate your circumstances from God’s point of view: Love. It’s His main motive for everything that happens to you.