I am worthy of God's Love

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from His love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39) Here are five life changing question. Question one: "If God is for us, who can ever be against us?" (v.31) The presence of God tilts the scales of security forever in our direction. Who could hurt us? Question two: "Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?" (v.32) Would God save our soul and then leave us to fend for ourselves? Will he address eternal needs and ignore earthly? Of course not! Question three poses: "Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for His own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with Himself" (v.33). Once God accepts you,what other opinion matters, including your own, sounds wimpy in the tribunal of heaven. God's acceptance trumps earthly rejection. Question four continues: "who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for He is the one who dies for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us" (v.34). Adjacent to God, within whispering distance of your Maker, sits the One who died for you. He occupies the place of his authority. So let your accusers or your conscience speak against you. Your divine defense attorney mutes their voices. Why? Because He loves you. Question five asks the question of life: "Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love?" (v.35) Can you name one thing, one element of life that signals the end of God's devotion? "Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry, or cold or in danger or threatened with death?" (v.35) "Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture" (v.35) No one can drive a wedge between you and God's love. "No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us" (v.37) Earthly affliction does not equate to heavenly rejection! Max Lucado