Nothing can Separate!

For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced--beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the [unlimited] love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ROMANS 8:38‭-‬39 AMP

If a weak and mortal human being can love a child, to the point of dying for it,  imagine what the one called Love himself would do for us. What makes this even more poignant is the fact that a mother's love is never conditioned on what she will get from the child, but simply because of the blood connection. It is the same with God; there is absolutely nothing we could give him to change his mind about us, and it is not as if there is something we could do to improve our lot. All he has done is out of love, not a sense of duty.

Paul must have experienced this and could speak confidently about it; you only testify about what you have experienced firsthand. He had seen persecutions and sufferings, he had been beaten and imprisoned, yet he knew a love deeper, stronger and personal than any other experience. It is about a personal experience, not what you have heard others say about it. If all I know about God is what others say about him, how would that help me when my life's situation does not look like their own experiences? When all I know is a rule, a precept and not the One called Love himself, how would that help me when the unusual storms blow?

I must therefore pursue a relationship and personal knowledge of God himself, if I am to truly enjoy the experience described in today's extract. Nothing else can fill that void; nothing else can guarantee the blessings that this knowledge brings. His time of favour is here.