THE EVERLASTING LOVE OF GOD FOR US!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

MONDAY APRIL 11, 2022.

SUBJECT : THE EVERLASTING LOVE OF GOD FOR US!

Memory verse: "Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" (Romans 8 vs 35).

READ: Romans 8 vs 35 - 39:

8:35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

8:36: As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

8:37: Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

8:38: For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor Angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 

8:39: nor height nor depth, nor any other created things, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

INTIMATION:

When we comprehend the extent to which God went to bring us into eternal glory, then we begin to understand the love of God. When we understand how far Jesus had to go to save us, then we can appreciate the extent to which God had to go to save us. God loved us so much so that He exchanged His Son's life of inestimable value with our worthless sinful lives. Whenever I imagine this act of God, I feel a chill run through my spines, with goose-pimples all over my skin. It is awesome!

Christ had already chosen you, not you chosen Him, and gave His life for you because of His love for you, and quest for you to have life, and have it more abundantly. Have you ever imagined this show of love for us by God? And have you ever heard of any parallel, or equal show of love in history, and now?

Christ was spotless, perfect and rich. For His love for us, He became poor, chose to be a propitiation for our sins, took all our sins—past, present, and future—on Himself, and paid the wages of our sins, which is death (Romans 6 vs 23; Ezekiel 18 vs 4). His death was even a shameful death on the cross, just for us. 

By His death for our sins, He justified us, legally setting us free from sin after haven paid the price for us. He did not stop at that, He descended to hell and met with our accuser and greatest enemy, Satan. He engaged him there, defeated him, and stripped him of all powers. After also defeating death, He took back His life, rose from death and ascended into heaven where He sits at His position of authority—the right hand of His Father, and making intercession for us continually as our advocate before the Father. 

He is our High Priest who sympathizes with our weaknesses, and ever ready to help us through the journey of life. Jesus is at the right hand of God. However, He is not there for the purpose of condemnation, but for the work of intercession on behalf of the saints. His continued intercession means that the Christian has the continual cleansing for sin by His sacrificial blood. It is through His blood and intercession, therefore, that we stand justified before God.

No matter what happens to us, no matter where we are, we can never be separated from His love. Though believers may have to face hardships in many forms; persecution, illness, imprisonment, and even death. These sometimes cause us to think that Christ has abandoned us. But far be it from the truth, it is impossible to be separated from Christ. His death for us is proof of His unconquerable love, which is an overwhelming assurance of our being totally secure in Him. Nothing can separate us from His presence.

No one can separate the children of God from their Father, for He is God of all things. All the hardships that Satan would unleash upon Christians cannot separate the children of God from their Father if they remain faithful unto death (Revelation 2 vs 10). Christians have not only conquered sin and death, they have also conquered the world because nothing of this world can separate them from the love of God. 

Satan has no subjective power over the Christian. Satan cannot of his will snatch the Christian from the love of God. He may go about in the world as a roaring lion, but his power of deception is not effective in reference to those who know and love the truth. He does not have the power to subject any Christian against his will who has given himself to God. 

Consequently, in Christ we are super-conquerors, and His love will protect us from any forces in the universe; principalities and powers: unseen evil forces like Satan and his fallen angels—the demons. We are completely secured in Him.

How else can we reciprocate such love but to follow Him, and be in complete obedience to His commands, knowing that His thought for us is forever of good. If he has given His life for us, what else can He not give to us to ensure we live for Him.

Prayer: Abba Father, I thank You for all You wrought for me in redemption out of Your unparalleled love for me. It is my desire to reciprocate this love You showcased for me. Give me the grace, O Lord, for complete obedience to You in my journey in life, and that nothing will ever take my entire focus on You, in Jesus' Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!