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...
Both we and our children should always trust in
God.
Upon
hearing Daniel's response from the lion's den,
King
Darius was overjoyed and did not know what to do
and
commanded that Daniel be lifted out of the lion's den.
When Daniel
came up from the den, not a single part of his body was harmed.
This
was because he had trusted in his God (Daniel 6:23).
As I
meditate on this passage, I am reminded of Daniel's three friends,
Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego. They were thrown into a furnace
heated
seven times hotter by King Nebuchadnezzar for not bowing to the golden image.
Yet,
they experienced no burns, their hair was not singed,
their
clothes were unharmed, and they did not even smell of smoke.
Consequently,
King Nebuchadnezzar acknowledged that
God
had sent His angel to save His servants who trusted in Him (3:19-21, 27-28).
In
this way, God delivers His children who trust in Him from the perils of this
harsh world,
such
as the lion's den, and ensures that not a single part of their body is harmed.
Therefore,
both we and our children should always trust in God, the eternal rock
(Isaiah
26:4), with all our hearts (Proverbs 3:5), and trust in the God
who
helps and protects us (Psalms 115:9, 10, 11).
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