THE INDISSOLUBLE UNION
God’s love is at work now in all your tomorrows.
We enter this New Year with all its possibilities, perplexities, and uncertainties. Life will see to it that you will walk through a myriad of experiences in 2010. As I’ve prepared my heart for the coming year, I’ve been struck with fresh wonder at the incalculable love of God for us.
What’s in store for us in the next twelve months? Tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, mockery – even martyrdom? These trials are surely in store for multitudes of our brothers and sisters worldwide. According to the apostle Paul (who tasted all of these), none of these assaults can separate us from the love of Christ. “Despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us” (Ro. 8:37, NLT).
Neither death nor life can sever us from His love. Not angels, not demons, not hostile authorities, not the pressures of the present, not the concerns about the future (my paraphrase of Ro. 8:38).
God’s love overarches the pinnacles of our victories, overshadows the depths of our defeats, and overcomes every created thing in between (my paraphrase of Ro. 8:39a). “Absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us” (Romans 8:39b, The Message). It is the strongest bond in the universe; an indissoluble union.
Throughout 2010 the love of God for you – expressed in Jesus our Lord – will be the capstone for every joy and the cure for every pain. No matter what life hurls at you this year, tether to the love of God.
“In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. . . . We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:9, 19).
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