Powerful and poignant! Its message fills our minds and spirits with
wild imaginings and hope of our eternal security as believers in Christ Jesus.
It is daunting within a three hundred word limitation to attempt to capture even
one part or premise of Paul’s magnificent dissertation, his letter to the Romans
and for each one of us “waiting to be revealed.”
Paul’s personal knowledge and gratitude of the grace
of God in Jesus, combined with his rhetorical skill shine in the stirring climax
of the chapter: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble
or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? Can
our troubles separate us from God? If we are killed for the faith, have we lost
the battle?
Paul says that there is a cosmic significance to
God’s plan being worked out in us: “For the creation waits in eager expectation
for the children of God to be revealed” (verse 19). The creation not only wants
to see us in glory — the creation itself will also be blessed with change when
God’s plan is brought to completion, as Paul says in the next verses: “For the
creation was subjected to frustration…in hope that the creation itself will be
liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of
the children of God” (verses 20-21).
I cling to Paul’s bold assurance as he wrote in
the Spirit -
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (verses
38-39). Nothing can separate us from the plan that God has for us.
Absolutely nothing can separate us from his love!
We can be confident in the salvation he has given us.
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