Nothing Can Separate You from God’s Love!

“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.” (Rom. 8:38-39)

The above passage was a revelation to me!

When I was two years old and my older brother was 4, my mother deserted us without warning. She left us with a stepfather she hadn’t been married to for very long. Soon we were in the welfare system and tossed from one family to the next, and rarely were my brother and I together. It was all very scary, lonely and confusing. It wasn’t unusual to go to bed at night at one place and wake up the next morning in the home of complete strangers. And if I ever thought of my mother, I remembered that she had abandoned us, and I truly believed she had never loved us. By the time I was an adult, I thought everybody I knew would eventually go away, and they usually did.

Then I met Jesus!

After receiving Christ and starting to study the Bible, I soon discovered that God had promised that He would never leave me! This was so reassuring and comforting! Then I met and married a Christian woman who had been raised with loving parents who had always been faithful to God, to each other, and to their children. She was surrounded by faithfulness and never questioned their love. So, when we had children of our own, we made sure they knew we loved them, and we passed along the truths found in the Bible about God’s unconditional love for them, too.

Therefore

“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we can confidently say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?’” (Heb. 13:5-6 ESV)