What's on your mind this morning? Is it the frantic search for toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Is it being "trapped" in your own home, wondering how you are going to navigate schooling and providing food for your family and what will happen to your job?
We are in new territory these days. None of us has had to face a pandemic like Covid-19. We are all dealing with uncertainties and questions and concerns in a way we have not known before.
As I have been thinking about and praying over these things this morning, this is the passage the Lord brought to mind:
"Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did; sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death; but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God......For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it. In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the Saints according to the will of God. And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son......What shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?......Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?.....But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:1-8, 24-25, 28-29,31, 35, 37-39 NASB)
How thankful I am for that nugget of truth planted in this passage, the nugget that brought me such peace and comfort this morning.
Nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus!
Nothing.
Not financial challenges.
Not health challenges.
Not the craziness in our world today.
Not even Covid-19.
Nothing.
Thank You, Jesus!
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39 NASB)
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