31How can we respond to such wonderful truths? If we are part of God's divine will, how can any opposition prevent His purposes for us?32-34So intent is He on seeing His plans fulfilled, He did not protect His Son from the necessary cost of giving His life for us all, because through His grace He wanted to give us everything that belongs to Christ. Yes, what He has, we are to have. He died, was raised back to life and is now seated in glory at God's right hand, all for our benefit. His blood liberates us. His Spirit enables us and speaks on our behalf.God's love for us35So who could ever separate us from God's love for us, a love He has so clearly demonstrated already? Do you really think God has forgotten all about you because you experience trouble or find the going tough, or because you have to suffer persecution of some kind? Do you really think God has stopped loving and caring for you because there is famine, or you are in great need, or you are in danger even of losing your life?36It was written: 'It was for your sake that we faced death and are as sheep that are being led away to be slaughtered.'37No, in all these things we are more than victorious through Him, for He has already won the victory for us and demonstrated such love for us.38-39I am totally convinced that death cannot separate us from Him or His love. Neither can anything that could ever happen to us in this life! No angels can stand in the way of God's personal love for us, nor can any demons prevent that love. Nothing in the present, nor anything that could happen in the future, would be able to destroy God's love for us. There is no spiritual power, nor any created power, that will ever be able to separate us from God's love for us that has already been so clearly expressed in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Scripture quoted by permission. The passage above is taken from THE TRUTH VERSION. Copyright © 2009 by Colin Urquhart. All rights reserved worldwide. (The Truth New Testament)