The Love Of God
Who will separate us from the love of
Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or
peril, or sword? As it is written,
For your sake we are being killed all
day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.
No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able
to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
What is your crisis today? Is it whether
or not the office is warm or the coffee is on? Is it terrorism or a random
threat? Maybe it is a personal crisis, with no foreseeable solution a tragedy
or a failure too great to bear.
Before we fall under the weight of our
accumulated fears, think of others who have faced fear squarely and looked down
at death. They could do that, just as you and I can, because we know that Jesus
Christ is our Personal Savior.
When your world
is falling apart,
trust Jesus to
hold it together.
Our Daily Bread March 3, 2005