Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Romans 8:38, 39
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.

The Apostle Paul seems to go to great lengths in order to assure us that God's love is greater than anything that would attempt to keep us away from him. It's a wonderful verse, and I believe it with all my heart. But most "Christians" don't.

What can separate us from God's love? Can hell? Are those that are in hell now on the outside of God's love? How can he still love them and burn them forever? Or does the verse only apply to Christians --- those who "accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior?" What about John 3:16? Does he truly love the world but with strings attached?

Or what about 2 Corinthians 5:19, where God is reconciling the world to himself in Christ? Is the Lord of the Universe not capable of meaning world when he says world?

Suppose our children were apathetic, mean, disobedient, unbearable or outright evil --- would they ever stop being our children? Never! If we stop loving them, shame on us. Would we not do anything in our power to bring them back to us of their own free will? If we can even imagine it, why can't God do it? Of course he can. He wrote the book.







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