Look back at your life. As you do, ask the Lord to show you the ways in which His love changed you. You will be amazed and awed. When you needed patience, He was patient with you. When you needed kindness, something beneficial and useful, God acted on your behalf. When the lies of the world were pressing you down, God’s truth prevailed bringing freedom and peace to your soul. During all the trial and tribulations you experienced, God’s protection brought you through and provided an anchor for your soul.
There has never been a time in your life when God gave up on you. His love endured.
That’s the power of God’s love.
Paul had a moment in his life when he looked back. Romans 8:31-39 was his conclusion concerning God’s love.
“What, then, shall we say in response to this? 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 is he that condemns? 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.”
Notice the impact of God’s love on Paul. He walked through life knowing that God was for him. He lived expecting God to provide his every need. The charges levied against him by the accuser rolled off his back as he stood in the righteousness of God. He lived as a conqueror through Christ who loved him dearly. He was convinced that whatever life threw at him could not separate him from the love of God.
The same can be true for you.
Paul was given a monumental task to carry out. He lived to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ and he suffered mightily for the Lord. We admire him as a man and long to meet him one day. It is easy to think that God loved him more than He loves us. But that is not true. Paul was no different than you and me. God reached down to him in the person of Jesus Christ and saved him, just like He saved you. He poured out His love on Paul, just as He has poured out His love on you and is doing so as you read these words.
Like Paul, you can walk confidently through life knowing that you are loved by God.
(Excerpted from Love Is.)
Hi Bob, Outstanding topic, and what a great Book. I share that Book in the Nursing Home ministry, I am up to being Proud. Bob those, I call them Kids, they sure like that,Listen so intently, and there is a piece that comes over them, that Religion doesn’t offer. How awesome it is to share that depth of Gods Love for them in Christ Jesus. It sure feels Great to be a Voice for what matters…Harry
To actually live as what Paul describes that nothing can seperate him from the Love of God, for anyone else to see and all to see is a feat to be learned because it is true, and trials of this world can be very hard on an individual,because it is true that the world comes against those that are wanting the truth and nothing but the truth, and for me I remember not to be afraid and if I am ever to be afraid I am to be afraid of the only one that can destroy both body and Soul, not just the body for that is only what the enemy can do. As of today I have the body marks of the suffering of the enemy trying to stop me from going after the truth, and God and I thank ptp ministries for the bottom line that set me to truth. Which I and the whole world in the sight of God the Father all are forgiven 100% of the time by Christ on the cross done by the death. That was the first ground work that started me on the path of truth to the resurrected Christ, that resurrected me by the operation of God the Father as God has already done for his Son
Romans 6:1-11, how we all still sin from time to time is not always understood by those verses, but when one reads 2 cor 12 about God’s grace being sufficient we grow and learn to glory in our iniiquities because we need God and God’s grace is sufficient in us and we might not sin, but if we do we have an advocate Jesus Christ the righteous that make constant intercession for us.
This is an amazing Salvation how can anyone ever want to take it for granted when in Christ you and all that beleive are smothered and covered in him (Christ)
God has covered all the basis for us and all we need to do is trust God in everything we do or say and we will become just like him as we continue to trust God in all things.
we are so Blessed, if we think it threw, we have the Love Chapter Living in our Heart, we have the Fruit of the spirit Living in our Heart, we have the full armour of God Living in our Heart, we don’t go and get these things, His Spirit of Love Lives in our Heart. You are not your Flesh,Your Flesh is not your Heart, you have the very Heart of Jesus, because you are one with Him, and in Him, you are his Son. What Peace and Joy he gives our Hearts. Harry
Amen Brother Harry Amen