Today's promise: God pursues us with his
love
Do you know God's lavish
love?
But I lavish my love on
those who love me and obey my commands, even for a thousand generations.
Exodus 20:6 NLT
A love impossible to escape
The Israelites had just
escaped from slavery in Egypt when God gave them the Ten Commandments. He
promised to "lavish" his love on them, if they would obey these laws.
Exodus 20:6 is an astounding promise of God's love and faithfulness to his
people.
It is all too easy for
us to feel separated from God, all alone, and unloved, but Romans 8:35-39
assures us that is it impossible to escape God's love, even if we don't feel
his love.
Can anything ever
separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have
trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or
threatened with death. [Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are
killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep."] No, despite all
these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I
am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and
life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our
worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away.
Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all
creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed
in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The picture is clear.
God's love never fails, and you can experience it now. Rest secure in the
knowledge that nothing can separate you from God's love.
Adapted from Living Water for Those Who Thirst Tyndale
House Publishers (2000), pp 131-2
Content is derived
from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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