It may have been during a time of calm in his life that Paul dictated the great words from Romans 8 when he said: "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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (vv 38-39) but something had convinced Paul that here was a thing that could not be changed by circumstance, distance, or time. The love of God in Christ would not change due to a catastrophe, a trip to a far country, or even the passage of the years as we grew older. A foreign power could not rip it away, a thief could not steal it, nor a perceived separation in our mind overthrow this thing. The great apostle through the Holy Spirit or through experience and reason, or all of the above, knew and believed that God's love in Christ was an immovable and inseparable thing.
It is good and godly for us to remember on this anniversary of 9/11 just what Paul discovered. We face trials of our faith daily, some greater and others of a smaller nature. The trials to come may be greater by far than 9/11, and then we have the judgments revealed to us by the Word in the books of prophecy. This is not to frighten us, but to remind us that nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God's love and grace to you,Bucky
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