I LOVE this from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers!
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? —Romans 8:35
God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says — “I will be with him in trouble.” It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man’s life, not one of them can separate him from his relationship to God. We are “more than conquerors in all these things.” Paul is not talking of imaginary things, but of things that are desperately actual; and he says we are super-victors in the midst of them, not by our ingenuity, or by our courage, or by anything other than the fact that not one of them affects our relationship to God in Jesus Christ. Rightly or wrongly, we are where we are, exactly in the condition we are in. I am sorry for the Christian who has not something in his circumstances he wishes was not there.
“Shall tribulation…?” Tribulation is never a noble thing; but let tribulation be what it may — exhausting, galling, fatiguing, it is not able to separate us from the love of God. Never let cares or tribulations separate you from the fact that God loves you.
“Shall…anguish…?” — can God’s love hold when everything says that His love is a lie, and that there is no such thing as justice?
“Shall…famine…?” — can we not only believe in the love of God but be more than conquerors, even while we are being starved?
Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver and Paul is deluded, or some extraordinary thing happens to a man who holds on to the love of God when the odds are all against God’s character. Logic is silenced in the face of every one of these things. Only one thing can account for it — the love of God in Christ Jesus. “Out of the wreck I rise” every time.
AMEN! There is NOTHING that we could ever face or go through or DO that can separate us from His love! The only thing that will cause His protection, provision and safety to NOT be available to us is if we quit, give up and stop believing! We will ALWAYS win if we stay in the fight of faith and use those powerful weapons that HE has provided us with! 2 Corinthians 10:3-5:
3 For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),
Line YOUR thoughts up with HIS thoughts, His Word, and refuse to quit! Your VICTORY is about to manifest! Here is Hillsong with "In God We Trust":
Shalom in Him!
