NOTHING CAN SEPARATE US FROM GOD’S LOVE!

This amazing discovery has two dimensions:
1.) Nothing separates God from ourselves:
Let us return to Paul’s statement: “If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). Paul announces here something that is already known from the Old Testament:”But once his sons leave my law and they shall not walk in my command, when my provisions abideand they don’t keep my rules,
then their punishment by reed and their iniquity by the bastards.
But I will not deny him favor and I will not break my faithfulness. I will not desecrate my contract and I will not take away the words of my mouth. I have sworn to my holiness once and for all that I will not disappoint David. His family will last foreverand before him shall be his throne like the sun; and forever the moon will be firm,
a faithful witness in the sky. ”(Psalm 89: 31-38)

In the Psalms, God spoke of David and of his promise to him, which is completely unchanging and firm: What God once promised, he will fulfill and keep under any circumstances.
Paul writes that the same is true of all of us, because God has made a New Covenant with us in His Blood and will never break that Covenant again! It is a “new and eternal” covenant.
We are often tempted to think that if we do not follow God’s commands exactly and commit sins, God will forsake us. Paul certainly states the opposite: not even the greatest and most serious sin we are capable of can cause God to cancel His Holy Covenant with us and stop loving us. On the contrary, he remains faithful, he is still beside us – even though we have driven him out of our hearts with grave sin, he remains at least behind his door, so that when they deviate a little, he will be with us and shake his hand to reconcile “Hi, buddy, but it took, didn’t it?”
John the Evangelist puts it in other beautiful words: “But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just: he will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ‘For if our heart reproaches us, God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.” 1 John 1: 9; 3.20)
Jesus himself portrays this wonderful fact in the story of a son who wasted everything his father gave him – and yet his father expected him with open arms and a heart full of love (cf. Luke 15: 11-32).
We can therefore live in absolute certainty: There is no such sin, no crime, or nothing on Earth, in Heaven, or in the depths of the Underworld, which could cause God to leave us for just one moment! All you have to do is call “Father!” At any moment, and on the other hand, the confidential will immediately say, “Son!”And the second dimension of this certainty?
2.) Nothing separates us from God’s love:
Paul the Apostle writes, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Is it tribulation anxiety or persecution, hunger or nudity, danger or sword? As it is written: “They kill us for you every day,they co nsider us sheep to be slaughtered. “But in all this we glorify victory through him who loves us. And I am confident that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present, nor future, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus: to our Lord. ”(Romans 8: 35- )” We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19), writes John the Evangelist. It is God’s love that is poured out in our hearts by the power of the Holy Spirit (cf. Romans 5: 5) and that causes us to be able to love God; that in spite of the falls, which are sins, we always rise again and follow Jesus to the Father. As long as we remain in God’s Love, nothing can separate us from it and nothing can endanger us! “God is faithful. He will not allow you to test beyond your strength, but with the test he will give you the ability to endure, ”(1 Corinthians 10:13). Paul. The devil’s power is broken by God’s Love at that moment. We must not imagine the devil as a giant, says one of the Church Fathers, at most as someone as strong as us, who, unlike us, does not have the Holy Spirit! So he will never overcome us – until we alone leave God, who is the source and source of our invincible power and the unwavering trust and hope that is absolute certainty in God!