Devotion #5: Inseparable Love

You do not have to look too deeply in the Bible to find mention of God’s love and care for His people. A quick internet search would tell us that there are hundreds of mentions of the word “love” throughout Scripture. As common as this word is, and as easy as it may be for many to talk about and attempt to explain God’s love, the reality is that for many of us, fully embracing and accepting that love can be another story. 

We can be able and should be willing to say that we believe God loves us. We can easily see it in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” Being able to quote and remind ourselves of these types of truths that God’s Word proclaims is incredibly important! However, sometimes, we find getting our hearts to fully accept what our heads know can prove to be difficult.  

If you are anything like me, maybe you have found yourself questioning how such a great God could really love someone like you. He does! His Word is filled with promises and statements regarding that love, but due to us being touched by the brokenness of sin on a daily basis, our view and understanding of God’s love can become skewed. We may be willing to share and accept that God really does love people, in their mess, brokenness, joy, and in all things, but we may have a harder time taking and genuinely applying that same belief of God’s love to ourselves.  

Here is where Romans 8:35-39 is such an incredible reminder for us, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 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.”  

The next time the lies in your mind want to tell you that you are too messy or too much for God’s love, come back to these verses. Know that when the Spirit of God lives in you, nothing is going to separate you from His love! Yes, even you.