Nothing in All Creation

I apologize for my incredible delinquency in keeping current here. I could offer various excuses, but in the end, excuses are just that – excuses.

I don’t have anything particularly profound to say at this juncture, and I suppose I’m coming to realize that if I wait to write until I have profundity flowing from my fingers, I simply won’t write. However, having entered this most amazing museum called theological education (see: An Update, an Interview, and a Museum) and having begun to walk the halls and gaze into chambers full of vast treasures, I must admit I am overwhelmed with a sense of my own finitude, ignorance, and failure, as well as my utter need of a Savior who not only redeems me, but who carries me unto the day when our faith shall become sight.

What is even more overwhelming, however, is that such a redemption actually exists, that we do have such a Savior, and, to continue the metaphor, that His love colors every portrait, shapes every sculpture, and is behind the design of every chamber in these galleries. However, more than that, this Love isn’t something relegated to being simply on display in the pages of Scripture. This love is alive and active, and it is in this love which we find our hope for today, tomorrow, and for all eternity.

But that love doesn’t mean that life isn’t hard sometimes … or, perhaps most times even (perhaps the times of difficulty are really the norm and times of “ease” are abnormal?). If our daily hope is not in that power, grace, and loving sovereignty which are outside of us, we simply won’t make it.  At one juncture this past year, I was near the point of despair because of my own failures and inabilities in the face of life’s difficulties and the challenges of my calling. Providentially, a friend then reminded me that our Lord doesn’t just give us grace in a big dose when we’re first saved and then tell us to go at it on our own. Instead, He daily gives us grace, for each day’s difficulties.  Whatever He brings to us this day, this week, or this year, whether joy or sorrow, difficulty or ease, hurt or healing, He will provide the grace and resources to deal with it one day at a time. We need not concern ourselves with anything beyond that. He is faithful – He will do it.

Be encouraged Christian -

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died – more than that, who was raised – who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’

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 8:31-39

No, friends, with Christ as our Advocate and Intercessor, nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of our God. Ever.

Advertisement