There are times in our lives that this road we travel, as believers, is filled with hills, stops, curves, smooth sections and rough sections. There are those roads that are wide-open and you can see what is coming for miles in all directions. Then there are those roads that are lined with trees and you cannot see what is around the next bend. Sometimes the sun is shining bright and other times the moon is not even out.
No matter what section of road you may be on today, there are promises that we can claim to give us confidence to keep going and to not give up. In Romans 8, the Apostle Paul gives us a wonderful promise of God’s love and the promise of Christ’s presence in our lives.
“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.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 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 8:35-39 ESV)
Those who would want to separate us from God cannot, life and death cannot; nothing in all creation can separate us from the love of Christ. So, in light of this truth and promise, what is there to fear? What part of the road, no matter its condition, should discourage us? With the wonderful promises of God, we should face each situation with the confidence of “conquerors” and not give into fear or the devil’s schemes (Ephesians 6) or his desire to devour us. (1 Peter 5:8).
To borrow a term from the 70”s; “keep on trucking” with Jesus!
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