📖Romans 8:35-37

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

📍Meaning: God permits trials to come in order that we may learn to depend on Him more. He gives us the power to be conquerors.

The Word of God proves to us over and over again that God cannot fail us, but we might wonder, is it possible that we can fail Him? Suppose some trial or temptation comes our way and we fail Him? Then what? Paul deals with that problem in this passage, and explains that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.

Nothing can separate a believer from Christ’s love, even though he or she faces extreme adversity. God does not shelter us from the difficulties of life, because we need them in order to grow spiritually. God permits trials to come in order that we may learn to depend on Him more.

He gives us the power to be conquerors. Salvation does not depend on circumstances but upon God who does the action of justification. No one can condemn a Christian because of this. Jesus intercedes for us because of Christ’s love for the believer, not our love for Him. By his grace we are saved.

Paul himself had faced all of these, and knew from personal experience that none of them had power to sever his relationship with Christ. Instead they only draw the believing heart closer to the Lord.