Will Anything Ever Separate Me From God's Love?

Have you ever sorted things into groups? Maybe you’ve separated your dirty clothes from your clean clothes or separated your markers from your crayons.

When you separate things out, they are no longer together. The groups don’t belong with one another.

Did you know when you were born you were separated from God? We all think, say and do things that disobey God. Those things are sin, and our sin separates us from God. There is nothing we can do on our own to fix that.

There is good news though! God sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins. If you believe Jesus died for your sins and trust Him as your Savior, you are saved and no longer separated from God. You belong with Him. 

In a letter the apostle Paul wrote to the Romans, he asked a question about this. Can you help me find Romans 8, verse 35? The book of Romans is in the New Testament.

Paul knew believers would face hard times. But Paul also knew God is always with believers because NOTHING can separate God from His people. Let’s read what Paul wrote in Romans 8, verses 37-39. 

“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.”

There is nothing in all of God’s creation that can separate us from His love. There is nothing bigger or more powerful than He is. We can be convinced absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love!

Think about it this way, have you ever made chocolate milk? 

Once you mix the chocolate with the milk can you separate them back out? You can’t take the chocolate out of the milk or the milk out of the chocolate. When you accept Jesus as your Savior you belong to God, and you can’t be separated from Him.

Does that mean life will be easy and everything will always go our way? Unfortunately, no. There will be times when life will be hard. Someone in our family may get sick. It may feel like everything is going wrong, and you may wonder why God would let these things happen.

But we can have hope. We are not alone. Nothing can separate us from God and His love. Every struggle we have, every tear we cry, every time we are left out or feel alone, God is with us. God is a good and loving Father, and He has promised He is for us and with us … always. As a child of God, NOTHING will ever be able to separate us from God’s love.