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neither death, nor life

Romans 8:38 & 39
"38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

NO ONE expected the resurrection even though Jesus told His Disciples that it would happen!!! And, when it happened it still shocked and surprised them!!! Then THEY got to tell THE STORY!!! We experience GOD'S plan much the same way. We don't expect the cross and the suffering, but its there. We don't know what to expect. It's unlike anything we have experienced before. It defys logic. It is not the way we would do things. It's contrary to the way people run their lives and this society we live in. It's something only God would come up with!

It's incredible! But wait! That's not all! In today's verses from the Apostle Paul's letter to the believers in Rome, we read that absolutely NOTHING "shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." 

Albert Barnes, Presbyterian Theologian, wrote in his famous commentary on the book of Romans; "Perhaps there is no chapter in the Bible on the whole so interesting and consoling to the Christian as this; and there certainly is not to be found any where a specimen of more elevated, animated, and lofty eloquence and argumentation." We are blessed beyond measure by GOD through His Son. 
Praise the Lord!

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