True Identity Ministries Blog

"So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us." Romans 8.31-39

The ESV translation reads that nothing “will be able to separate us from the love of Christ.”

Did you see that? Nothing. Not even the worst sins, can separate us from the love of Christ. That means that nothing you have ever done or could ever do will stop Christ from loving you. You can’t get away from it, even if you wanted to or how far you ran. It’s impossible.

You want to know something? I’ve tried. I’ve believed it wasn’t true. I would hear the words, “God loves you,” and push them to the side. I believed that those words were only for those who were good. Those who were in a sense, “perfect.” But nobody is perfect. And those words are for me. For me AND for you.

You know what?

God loves you. And there is never one thing you could do for that to be untrue. So embrace it. It may not be easy and you may find it hard to believe that you could be loved, but it’s true. You simply have to step into it.