“He Loves me…. he loves me not…”


BIBLE READING: Romans 8


            “He loves me…he loves me not… he loves me… he loves me not…”  Remember that game that children play?  It involves picking a flower, and slowly picking off one petal at a time and reciting one of the two sentences in alternating fashion until all of the petals have been removed.  The last one stated when pulling off the last petal was supposedly whether or not a person’s target of affection was in love with them, or not.  It may seem ridiculous, but it can be all consuming when we wonder if we are loved by another.
                Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that with God.  How wonderful is the crescendo of chapter 8!  Verses 38 and 39 read, “For I am persuaded that neither death not life, nor angels, nor principalities, not powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus or Lord”  Nothing, except ourselves, can separate us from the love of God.  What a comforting feeling!  In Verse 28, We’re told that all things work together for good for those who love God.  It doesn’t mean that everything that happens is good, or that everything in this world is good, but it does mean that whatever happens work together FOR good.  When I think about nothing being able to separate us from the love of God.  I think about a child that crawls up into the lap of a parent and has the arms of that parent hold them tight.  There’s nothing that will take them away.  It is the same with God.  As follow Him, and love Him, He will not take that love away from us.  What a wonderful thought to put a smile on our face all day long!

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