Free Download: 25 recommended resources on spiritual growth and discipleshipHow would you feel today if when you arrived home after the service and you noticed that someone had broken into your home?  You would call the police and wait for them to insure that your home was secure.  And then as you walked through your home you began to notice that some of your belongings were missing.  All of a sudden, it would dawn on you that not only did you lose some things, but that your security had been lost.  You had been violated.  Someone came into your home, your private space.You would recognize that you are vulnerable.  You might say, “I thought I was safe!”  “I thought I was secure!”Today I want to talk about another kind of security. I know that feeling secure in God’s love can be difficult because in this life we face so much uncertainty. We wrestle with questions like:• What is going to happen in my future?• Does God really love me?• Are my sins really forgiven?• Will God take care of my familyRomans 8:35, 37-39 - “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 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.”In verse 35 Paul asks the question: Who can separate us? Who can separate us from the love of God? That word, separation, is a Greek word which means “to chop off,” “to cut off.”Who can amputate us from the love of God and who can amputate God’s love from us? Of course, the answer is nothing, nobody.• God’s love is not broken by emotional factorsLook at verse 35. He mentions two, “trouble or hardship.” The word trouble means “inner pressure.” This can be depression, discouragement anger or bitterness? Sometimes, these inner feelings of trouble and pain we have make us wonder “Does God really love me?” Well, the Bible says even those feelings of pressure can’t cut off, or amputate God’s love. Then he uses a second word in that verse, hardship. That’s a word that means “outer pressure.” The Bible says even the worst of pressure from without that causes you emotional pain cannot separate us from God’s love.• God’s love is not broken by physical factorsEven physical pain, not just emotional pain but physical pain cannot amputate us from God’s love. Look at the next few words he uses. He says, “Persecution, famine, nakedness, danger or the sword,” which literally is a weapon that can be used to kill a person. He says, “Even these physical threats cannot separate you from the love of God.”• God’s love is not broken by earthly factorsLook at verse 38. He says, “death nor life, present nor the future, nor height nor depth…” He is saying is death doesn’t separate you from the love of God. Those of us who know Jesus Christ know death ushers us into the presence of God.• God’s love is not broken by heavenly factorsNot just earthly things, but eternal things or heavenly factors. He even talks about angels nor demons. Then he says in verse 39, “anything else in all creation.Today’s Challenge: Receive this encouragement from the Word of God. You are secure in God’s love. Life throws a lot at us, but nothing you experience can separate you from His love. Let your heart be encouraged. Let your faith be renewed. God will always love you.

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