“Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ” - Romans 8:35 (NASB)
Perhaps one of the things we as followers of Jesus become anxious about is not becoming separated from the love of Jesus Christ. We are in Christ because we have believed and accepted the sacrifice He made for us on the cross. Yet, our faith is tested from time to time by many things. The Apostle Paul lists some pretty severe means of faith testing. Can something ever happen or can something we do when tested sever our relationship with Jesus? Might we do something that God is so displeased with that we become disqualified for His love? The short answer is, No, Nothing. The truth we find in the question asked in today's verse is posed to give us reason to reflect what we know of the love of God. It come in the context of assurance that only Christ Jesus can condemn us but instead, (v. 34) He intercedes for us before God the Father. None of these threats are more powerful than the intercession of Jesus before our Father in Heaven.
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