The Love Of God

What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered 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, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:31-39

It is not our grasp on God that keeps us safe, but the power of Jesus’ grasp. No one can take us out of that grasp – not the devil, not even ourselves. Once we’re in His hand, He will not let go.

We are double safe. Our Father is on one side and our Lord and Savior on the other. They both are holding us. These are the hands that shaped the mountains and oceans and flung the stars into space. Nothing in this life or the next can separate from the love that holds us.

The One who saved us is the One who keeps us.

Our Daily Bread – December 31, 2013