As I was walking the other day, I thought about how much we are loved by our Father God. The words of Romans 8 began to flow through my mind with each step, with emphasis on the word separate.
“Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? … For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” [Rom 8:35, 38-39 CSB]
As I walked, I thought about God’s love. Paul asked first, “Who (or what) can separate us?” Then he answered his own question … nothing can. There is nothing in this life, nor the next, that is able or will be able to separate us from the love of God that we have seen demonstrated in Christ Jesus our LORD.
Since that walk the other day, there have been several times when the love of God just overwhelmed me—once in the car as I was driving to a prayer meeting, once as I sat leisurely in my lounge chair reading, another time when I was simply walking around the house. Out of the blue, I could simply sense God’s presence with me. I had done nothing in those moments to seek Him, He simply came to me.
And that beloved, is truly the most incredible of all truths. God seeks us. God wants us. It all originates in Him.
I have been struggling physically. What is going on in my body is not going to kill me … probably. It does, however, make everything I do more difficult. I, like so many others, battle fatigue and pain, and the side effects of medications. Too often that claims my focus. Then, as if a veil parts for only a moment, I sense God’s love and presence overshadow me. When that happens, it all becomes all right. He is with me. He loves me.
To know, to sense, God’s love for us will overwhelm every earthly problem we ever may face. His love is all we need.
