Romans 8: 35-39
Today is my fifth anniversary of the day I was baptized and completely surrendered my life to Christ. When I think back on that day five years ago, I always go back to the Phillips, Craig, and Dean song “When God Ran.” That song is one of God’s great love messages to me, to all of us… it is the story of the prodigal son coming home and the Father running to meet him, to tell him that he (the Father) still loves him. The chorus goes like this:
“The only time I ever saw Him run
Was when He ran to me,
He took me in arms,
Held my head to his chest,
Said my son’s come home again
Lifted my face, wiped the tears from my eyes,
With forgiveness in his voice,
He said, ‘son, do you know I still love you.’” (Phillips, Craig, and Dean)
That is God’s great message… I used to think I was too much of a failure, that no one could love me like that, no one could love me in spite of my faults. God’s love is different, though. He is different. His love is eternal, never changing, and unconditional. He never changes His mind; He loves us in spite of our fears, our faults, our failures. Wherever we are, whatever we do, nothing can separate us from His love. The verses in Romans say that neither trouble, or hardship, or disaster, nor the present, nor the future can separate us from His love. His love is constant. He is always there, ready to take us in His arms, assuring us that in spite of everything, He still loves us. He still loves me.
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