Daily Devotion

 With Pastor Ancel Presnell

“GOD’S INSEPARABLE LOVE”

 

Paul’s writing in Romans 8 is the pinnacle of showcasing the benefits of being a child of God. All through the 1st half of Romans, repeatedly, God’s word is revealing to us that we are lawbreakers and enmity with God, and we desperately need reconciliation and mercy from Holy God in heaven! Romans 8 outlines the rich and matchless benefits of being one of God’s chosen children!

Paul asks a very pointed question in Romans 8:35: “Who/what shall separate us from the love of Christ?” He then begins to list a great deal of various circumstances as an illustration of scenarios where God’s love stands the test of the question. Can tribulation/suffering, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword separate us from the love of Christ? The list of circumstances that Paul gives cover just about anything we could possibly think of that we could endure.

Some within our faith suggest that we are immune to struggle and trial because we are God’s children. Nothing could be further from the truth! Paul uses a passage from the Old Testament found in Psalm 44:22—”22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.” You see, we are subject to like circumstances because we are a child of God, there are no immunities from these things because we are His, but rather, we are likely to face some of these because we are His!

The issue is when we face such circumstances, the enemy is right there to raise up doubts within our mind on whether God really loves us. The question seems legitimate during the times of great suffering that we may be enduring. How could God love us and allow such suffering? If God spared not His own Son from suffering, who do we think we are? We must remember, Christ overcame all His suffering on the other side of the grave, and that is the promise that we have; we too shall overcome all trial and tribulation on the other side of the grave! This is the reality of His great love for us! He will see us all the way through!

Romans 8:37—”37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”