Romans 8:35 “Who could ever divorce us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love.” Today's episode is all about how much God loves us and how no one and nothing can ever separate us from that love. God loved us before the beginning of time, and He will always love us. Music:"Adding the Sun" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Nothing In This Universe Has The Power To Diminish God's Love Towards Us!
Romans 8:35 “Who could ever divorce us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love.”
This is the passion translation again. I decided this morning to just open it and read some of it and see what jumped out at me. I really liked all of chapter 8, but I thought it best to limit it to a verse or two. I will probably stay in chapter 8 for at least one more episode. It was tough to decide between this verse and the verses at the end of this section. This section in Chapter 8 is called “The Triumph of God’s Love.” Can you tell just by the title why I loved all of it? The end of this section was similar to this verse, yet it said it in a different way that was equally compelling. I will probably use those verses on Thursday or Friday, so stay tuned.
I decided on this verse today because it drives home something that I try to help people see. Something I wish everyone in the world knew down deep in the depths of their hearts. God loves us ALWAYS, NO MATTER WHAT WE DO! The verse starts by asking us a question. “Who could ever divorce us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One?” I like that it uses the word divorce as that is a word where, unfortunately, everyone knows the meaning. The verse answers that question with an, “Absolutely no one!” There is so much in that one sentence. That one sentence tells us that no one could ever divorce us from Jesus’ love. Divorce means to separate something from something else. The verse is saying no one can separate us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One. This tells us that the love is endless. It is not fickle like human love. It doesn’t come and go with the changing of the winds or the changing of our moods. God’s love is endless.
The next line says, “For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love.” The first part was saying no one could come between us; now this verse is saying nothing can come between us. We might agree that no person could come between us and God, and yet we struggle to believe that nothing can come between us. We think our failures make it so God can’t love us. We think our sins make it so God can’t love us. This verse shows us that NOTHING in this universe has the power to diminish His love towards us.
It even says that troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. I think it is really important to know this because what it doesn’t say in this verse is no one, and nothing will try to come in between us and heaven’s love. You will find plenty of people that want to come between you and heaven’s love. You will find plenty of things that the devil will use to try to come between you and heaven’s love. If we know that these things aren’t strong enough to block God’s love for us, then we won’t worry so much. We won’t pay them so much attention. The enemy tries to convince us that every little thing we do makes us unworthy of God’s love. He tries to convince us that God could never love us; look at all we have done. This is why it is important to read God’s Word. It is important to know what the Lord is actually saying to us so we can stand up to the enemy and know when He is lying, which by the way, is always!
The last line in this verse says, “What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love.” This last part is interesting. You might think, why would these things hinder God’s love? I am not doing them; they are being done to me. For instance, persecution is hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or political beliefs. Why would someone being hostile to me get in the way of God’s love? The reason we think this is because of the things they say to us. Their primary purpose is to make us feel like we are not good enough. They want us to think God could never love us. This verse confirms that even if we might feel far from God because of deprivations, dangers, and death threats, He is still right there with us, and He is loving us no matter what.
I love the language the last line uses. It says that all these tactics the enemy uses are impotent to hinder God’s love. Impotent means unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless. I love to think about how powerless the enemy and His tactics are to separate us from God’s love. The only thing is, we have to know this, we have to believe this, and we have to live this. If we don’t know this, then we will believe the enemy's lies, and we will think we are unloved. We will feel like we are unloved. When we believe the lie, we empower the liar. The enemy is convincing many people that the Lord couldn’t possibly love them. We have to get His word out. We have to share what we know, which is that the Lord’s love is endless and unconditional. Nothing we can do or anyone else can do can take it away from us. He loved us before we were born, and He will love us Always!!
Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening today and all of their families. I ask that you bless their holiday season and that you help us remember the reason for the season. Help us be ridiculously kind this holiday season. Lord, help us hear this message today and let it take root down deep in our hearts. Let us know that we know that we know that you love us always and nothing can change that. We ask that you reach out to all those who feel unloved this Christmas Season and help them feel loved! We love you right back, Lord, just not quite as perfectly as you love us. We ask all of this in accordance with our will and in Jesus’s holy name. Amen!!
Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I am so excited because my new mentoring group starts two weeks from today! If you have any questions about it, please reach out to me on social media or with an email to catherine@findingtruenorthcoaching.com. If you know someone who would love to grow closer to the Lord in this upcoming year, you could gift them a membership for the first month and see what they think. It is just $30 a month for 4 weekly sessions and the private Facebook group. That is about a dollar a day. Also, if you or someone you know wants to grow closer to the Lord and yet really can’t afford the $30 a month, then let me know. I can send them a link to pay what they can afford to pay. I can’t wait to meet some of you in my new mentoring program. I hope you give it a try! I look forward to bringing you a witness from my good friend Catherine tomorrow. She has been on here before, but it was over a year ago, and I don’t think many of you heard her witness. I know you will love it, as it is an incredible testimony. She is a very strong woman. I hope you will tune in and listen tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day!
The Lord’s Word for you today from my prayer group is, “Even though we are in troubled times, my graces abound for you and yours. Fear not to move forward in trust every day. Do not be anxious. Believe in me. I will take care of you forever.”