Devotion:
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Read Romans 8:31-39.
Life often throws challenges our way—doubts, struggles, fears, and losses. In these moments, it can feel like the world is against us, like we are alone in our battles. But Paul reminds us in this powerful passage that no opposition, no hardship, no suffering, and no external force can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
Paul asks a rhetorical question: “If God is for us, who can be against us?” This isn't to say that we won’t face difficulties, but rather that no challenge is greater than God’s love and power. God, who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us, has already proven the depth of His commitment to us. If He has given us Christ, will He not also provide what we need to endure?
Paul then walks us through a series of threats—tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, sword. These were real struggles for early Christians, and they remain real for many believers today. Yet, even in suffering, Paul declares that we are “more than conquerors” through Christ. Our victory is not in avoiding hardship, but in knowing that hardship cannot undo the love God has for us.
Finally, Paul offers one of the most reassuring declarations in all of Scripture:
"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)
No force in existence—spiritual or physical, past or future—can cut us off from the love of God. That means that even when we fail, when we doubt, when we struggle, God's love remains constant and unbreakable. No matter what comes your way today, stand firm in this truth: You are deeply loved, and nothing can take that away.
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