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Who Can Separate Us?

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(The following is the June 24 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Romans 8 and pay close attention to verses 31-39.)


Spurgeon said of Romans 8: “This wonderful chapter is the cream of the cream of Holy Scripture. What a grand keynote the apostle strikes in the first verse! ‘No condemnation’ is the first note of the chapter, and in the last verse it is ‘no separation.’” * Remarkably, God no longer remembers his children’s sins, and our relationship with him is secure once established.


Consider these glorious truths from the chapter:


“If God is for us, who is against us?” (v. 31). “Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies” (v. 33).


“Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” (v. 35). “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (vv. 37-39).


These verses assure us of the believer’s ultimate triumph over all that might try to destroy our relationship with God. We will occasionally fall short in this life, but nothing can permanently separate us from him once we are his children. Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand” (John 10:27-29).


Rejoice, Christian, that once you are in Christ, nothing will separate you from his love.


Next Step:


Read 2 Corinthians 13:5 and answer the question, “Are you in the faith?” If so, praise God that your place is eternally secure. If not, turn from your sin and place your trust in Christ today.

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* CSB Spurgeon Study Bible, ed. Alistair Begg (Nashville: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), 1523.

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