"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 conquerers 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." (v. 35-39)
Wow! What an amazing passage from the Bible. This Scripture is well known. However, how deep have we explored these words. Typically we can feel great about the love that is given to us. It is an amazing love. However, do we spend time to trace this love back to God. Is it just the love that we focus on, and not the One who is loving us? In fact, have we not heard that God IS love.
Unfortunately, we separate the two. Most of us find comfort in the love, but forgets who is loving us. The last verse is the key, "love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord". Through the sacrifice of the Son of God do we find agape (unconditional) love. It is through His death and resurrection that makes such love possible to be "untouched" by anything and made available to all. All that is left is to accept it and embrace it. It is then when we can truly experience the love of God.
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