“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39
What a comfort it is for us who trust in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to know that God’s love rests upon us and that nothing can separate us from that love, which is ours in Christ!
O loving and merciful God, by the Spirit’s gracious working through the promises of Your Word, keep me trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ and walking in Your love. Amen.
[Scripture is quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” Romans 8:35-37
Can anyone or anything separate us from the love of Christ and take from us the salvation He won for us? His love and His promises are sure — even in the face of trouble, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger, or death. Through faith in Christ Jesus, we have the victory!
O gracious Savior, keep us in the true and saving faith so that nothing may separate us from Your love and mercy or take from us what You have promised. Amen.
[Scripture is quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]
“Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Romans 8:33-34
Though we are sinners and condemned by God’s law, do we, as believers, need to fear being condemned on the day of judgment? God has declared us just and righteous through faith in Christ Jesus and His atoning sacrifice on the cross. Christ Jesus Himself is the Judge who will condemn the ungodly, and He is the one who died for us and rose again and even now intercedes on our behalf at the right hand of God the Father in heaven.
O gracious and merciful God, thank You for declaring me just and righteous in Your sight through faith in the Son, Christ Jesus, who redeemed me to be Your own dear child through faith in His shed blood. Amen.
[Scripture is quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:31-32
Since God showed His great love for us by giving His only-begotten Son to die for us all and atone for our sins, what have we to fear? He who called us to faith in the Son will most certainly continue His gracious working in us and preserve us in that true and saving faith unto life everlasting!
O gracious God, thank You for sending Your Son to die for me, for calling me to faith in Christ Jesus through the Gospel, and for preserving me in that faith until I am safe with You in heaven. Amen.
[Scripture quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]
“Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” Romans 8:30
What a comfort it is to us as believers to know that God knew us as His own before the foundation of the world, predestined us to be conformed to the image of His Son Jesus Christ, called us through the Gospel promises of forgiveness and life in Christ Jesus, counts us just and righteous through faith in Jesus, and preserves us in that faith through the continued use of His Word until we are glorified and with our Savior in heaven!
O merciful Father, as You have known me and called me to faith in Your Son through the Gospel, preserve me in that faith unto life everlasting. Amen.
[Scripture quoted from the King James Version of the Bible.]
