Always, No Matter What 04-18-23

Good morning. A few words about the love of God for you:

God loves you when you are completely unlovable.

God loves you when you choose not to love Him.

God loves you when no one else will.

God loves you when you don’t deserve it.

God loves you when others abandon you.

God loves you if others divorce you.

God loves you when everyone else ignores you.

God loves you when it feels like those around you hate you.

God loves you when you are weak and fail Him.

God loves you when you feel strong enough to refuse Him.

God loves you through the darkness.

God loves you in the light.

God loves you, always, no matter what.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding 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 these 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. Romans 8:31-39

Vern