Ever had questions about whether God loves you, or will keep on loving you? Most, maybe all, have thoughts like that, even if for a fleeting second.
In His wisdom God provides us assurance.
Romans 8:38-39 (KJV):
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
It may be something we know. But to have it articulated so well is assuring.
First, we note that the writer under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit, wrote ‘I am persuaded’. Convinced, after considering all the evidence and facts and all the circumstances, decided with no doubt.
Even death can’t separate us from the love of God. Certainly, God’s love doesn’t stop at death. He has created us for eternity, and through the salvation provided by Jesus Christ, we will live forever with Him in the present of His eternal love.
Another scripture teaches us how important it is that we have assurance beyond this present life: “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”
– I Corinthians 15:19.
If our hope stopped at death, then we would be miserable. But it doesn’t stop there, our hope is eternal, without end.
Down in verse 54 and 55 of that same chapter I Corinthians 15, it says “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Even the power of death shall never separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.