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...
The Comforter who can sympathizes with our weaknesses “For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). Some of us are sick and unable to say we are sick. There are many people around us who cannot say ‘I am going to very hard time.’ Many people live with fear, pain and suffering. But the problem is that they cannot share their fear, pain and suffering with anyone. Perhaps that's because they don’t have anybody whom they can share their hearts with. Why can’t they share their hearts? Maybe it's because they think that even we open our hearts and share our fear, pain and suffering, the other person will not be able to understand or sympathize with them. So they are mainly covering that fear, pain and suffering deep in their hearts. And they live this way today. As I meditated on Jesus during the...