Romans 8:38-39

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor thing present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 8:38-39 (NASB)

I need to hear this verse a lot.  It’s actually the verse that comes to mind the most.  If I’m struggling with something, I think through it.  When I am having trouble preparing for worship on a Sunday morning, I sing through it (I know a melody to it that some random person at East Iowa Bible Camp came up with that I’ve remembered ever since).  This verse is a great comfort to me.

What I love most about it is that Paul doesn’t just stop at nothing can separate us from the love of Christ; he goes through all the spectrums.  He contrasts all of the extremes.  Nothing from death to life.  Nothing from angels to demons (and everything in between), nothing in our past, and nothing in our future (in other words, nothing we have done and nothing we will do) can separate us from Christ.  Oh what marvelous Grace He has shown us!  Need you another reason to worship!

It’s no wonder that the hymn writer wrote:

The love of God is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell.  It goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell.  The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win.  His erring Child, He reconciled and pardoned from his sin.

And my favorite verse (I love the picture that he paints here)

Could we with ink, the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made.  Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade.  To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry.  Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky.

Oh love of God, how rich and pure!  How measureless and strong!  It shall forevermore endure the saints’ and angels’ song.

We will spend all eternity worshiping Christ our redeemer, yet even that time won’t even begin to describe the love that He showed us at the cross.  Let’s get a good head start yes?  Hope to see you Sunday singing praises to our King! (Or if you’re not in Manhattan, hope you are somewhere singing praises to the King!)