Good day dear friends.
Here is our study guide for today:
Thursday: Read Romans 8:37-39. Hear each powerful word of faith speak to your soul about the NOTHING that can separate you from the love of God through Christ Jesus. Reflect on what that means to you now and what it should mean.
8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hear it also through The Message version:
8:37 None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. 38 I'm absolutely convinced that nothing - nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, 39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable - absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Here I'm old-school in that the NRSV reads a bit more powerful especially in verse 37, for Paul declares whatever we go through, it matters not, for "we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." To conquer sounds pretty sufficient to most. Just to win for many is enough. But Paul says in life we go beyond just winning, we go to all that victory brings because of God's love. And if we reflect again on those things that might keep us from enjoying all things, and the list is impressive in the NRSV, remember that NOTHING can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Let that be our word for today: NOTHING. Not that we DO nothing, but that we see that nothing, absolutely nothing, can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
PRAYER: Center our hearts on the EVERYTHING that your love is. Center our minds on the NOTHING that can separate us from your great love. Let this be a day that goes beyond victory, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Amen.
Have a great and blessed day!
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