06/06/2021 - INSEPARABLE BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST

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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35

Who can separate us from the love of Christ? For sure not tribulation or Satan’s tricks. Our connection to God happened because of a beautiful and complete work, consumed by our Savior on the cross at Calvary. On that altar, He didn’t measure how much He would suffer, but He gave Himself to rescue us. Bring on the toughest challenges! Nothing can pull us away from the hands of God!

If we’re feeling anguished, we should remember that David, who also suffered with anguish, was victorious: In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came before Him, even to His ears (Psalm 18:6). The secret to be delivered from affliction is to act in the same way David did, because the method applied to him will be applied to those who pray to the Lord in faith.

Persecution won’t ever cause servants of God to fly away like birds, because He who protects them won’t allow them to be hit by the devil’s evilness. Israel’s Guard never sleeps: Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep (Psalm 121:4). He’s watching over us 24 hours a way, 7 days a week. There is no greater security than this!

Hunger for food and for truth cannot separate us from the love of Christ, which unites us to God. Without that love, one will be always lost. However, by experiencing such gesture from the Lord, one can walk in safety, receive prudence and other virtues that are necessary to those who long to live piously. The Lord made us His people by the love Jesus demonstrated on our behalf dying for our freedom!

Physical nudity brings shame to believers, but those who are lost consider it a trophy. However, to not wear any clothes is to not be prepared by the Most High to be an example of an overcomer: For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life (2 Corinthians 5:4). Never be found naked!

Real or imaginary dangers should never stop us from going where the Father wants to send us. Paul enumerated a series of dangers he faced, but he didn’t disobey the Lord: in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren (2 Corinthians 11:26).

Lastly, we can be threatened by the sword of religious people, thieves and those who don’t fear God, as well as authorities who decide to forbid their citizens of hearing the message of Christ. Our answer should always be: “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do (Luke 12:4).

In Christ, with love,

Dr. Soares