The Inseparable Love of God (1) [ Romans 8:38-39 ] Why can nothing separate us from the love of God? 1. Because God’s love is eternal. Romans 8:29a says: “For those whom He foreknew…” The word “foreknew” refers to before eternity began —before the creation of heaven and earth . The phrase “those whom He foreknew” does not simply mean knowing about someone intellectually, but rather loving them. In other words, it refers to “those whom God loved from eternity past.” Amos 3:2a says: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth.” If “known” merely meant intellectual knowledge, that would imply that God only knew Israel and did not know the other nations—which cannot be true, because the all-knowing God lacks knowledge of nothing. Therefore, “I have known you only” means “I have loved you only.” God loved Israel among all the nations of the earth. Hosea 13:5 says: “I knew you in the wilderness , in the land of great drought.” The “wilderness” was where the Israelite...
There is hope for a tree.
There is hope for a
tree.
If it is cut down, it
will sprout again,
and its new shoots will
not fail.
Its roots may grow old
in the ground and its stump die in the soil,
yet at the scent of
water,
it will bud and put
forth shoots like a new plant.
But a person in extreme
suffering,
living a hard life like
a hired laborer, may seem to have no hope
(Ref.: Job 14:6-9).
Here are the lyrics to
verses 1 and 3 of the hymn "My Hope is Built on Nothing Less":
(V. 1) My hope is built
on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the
sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ the solid rock
I stand; all other ground is sinking sand.
(V. 3) His oath, His
covenant, His blood, support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul
gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.
On Christ the solid rock
I stand; all other ground is sinking sand.
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