Love?

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? Romans 8:35 NLT

The Word and the world's view of love are parallel lines that can never meet. The  world seeks to take from you as much as it can without giving you anything back, or ask you to prove yourself worthy of the love before you can receive it. The Word already shows and gives love, even when the recipients were totally undeserving of it. Long before we knew the worth, we had received the love.

If this is how God has dealt with us, what then is so big that it can take us away from this love? If God give up himself for us, what else will he not give us? What could be bigger, better or brighter than what we have now? If I know who I belong to and who I am now, nothing physical or  emotional can change that. Trouble, calamity, danger and death are the natural consequences of sin, but none of them lasts forever. They always come to pass, and only God remains the same through all generations.

The world may threaten all it can, or seek to distract me as much as it can. I fix my gaze solely on the One who loved me enough to secure my eternity. No matter what I face down here, it is only for a season. God's love is eternal and will sustain me through all of life's journey. His time of favour is here.

Prayer: Lord, I am grateful for your eternal love. May nothing be strong enough to distract or derail me from you. Amen.