God's Love and Power on the Cross

        "What, then, shall we say in response 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, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

                                                               

                                                                                                                              -Romans 8:31-39

      I felt like I needed to write something "Eastery" since everyone else was. :) I love these verses as the "Easter" verses. I grew up in church where all they would talk about was the Easter story and don't get me wrong that is great to hear but we need another way to apply it to our lives. I feel like these verses gives us that way. For me, at this point in my life, they make it more real to me. This was the sermon I heard last night during my church service and they made me think. 

       

       Jesus died on the cross for us to take away our sins but yet God won't blame it on any of us but on himself. Nothing can take that Love away from us. We will go through hardships, famine, danger, and we do face death all day long and more but through Christ's Love we are conquerors. If that is not enough to get us to believe then it goes on to say, neither the present or future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth can keep us from Him. I like what my preacher said last night, "Paul is trying to get us to realize God's Love for us by giving examples but Paul knows that is not possible so he ends with saying, "nor anything else in all of Creation." That means nothing at all can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

    

        When you need to feel God's Love through the thick and thin, these are great verses to go back to and remember that no matter what God sent His Only Son to save us, sinners. God can pull us through anything with His Love if only we will believe in Him and again goes back to trusting in Him. WE CAN'T MEASURE HOW WIDE OR DEEP HIS LOVE IS FOR US BUT ISN'T THAT AWESOME!? HIS LOVE IS THAT BIG AND THAT FOREVER GIVING LOVE! IT HAS NO HUMAN BOUNDARIES, ONLY GOD GIVEN BOUNDARIES! Boundaries so BIG that Jesus had to go to a cross and nail the human boundaries there and get "new" ones. 

         

        Just think: God got rid of the old boundaries (the ways of the Old Testament) that weren't working in the lives of His people and placed new boundaries (The WAY of the New Testament) in their lives after Jesus died on the cross. WOW! When you put it like that, that means a lot!