Honey From The Rock

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Honey From The Rock
Psalm 81:16

"Sweet Stuff From God's Word"

A daily Bible study with Victor Knowles
Copyright 2007

Sever? No, Never!

This entry was posted on 12-28-2006 and is filed under Devotional.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...For I am persuaded that (nothing)...shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:35,38,39 NKJV).

How strong is the love of Christ and the love of God? So strong, Paul says, that nothing shall be able to separate the committed believer from God's incredible love, in Christ.

I am sure that his promise has comforted millions in the past and is a comfort even as we ponder this verse at this very moment. Nothing mentioned in this passage is stronger that God's love. Nothing can separate us or sever us from His great love. Do not think lightly of such love. Do not spurn his everlasting love. This is an amazing, embracing, insulating, protecting, love – a love that will not allow anything or anyone to sever us from Him. J. G. Small put it this way in his hymn "I've Found a Friend." "I've found a friend, oh, such a Friend! He loved me ere I knew Him; He drew me with the cords of love, and thus He bound me to Him./And 'round my heart still closely twine those ties which naught can sever, for I am His and He is mine, forever and forever."

Song of Praise: And can it be that I should gain an interest in the Savior's blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pursued?/Amazing love! how can it be that Thou my God, should die for me? (Charles Wesley)