Sharing a Text Message

I am going to take a different approach to today's post. I am going to share a text message that I received from a person who attends the church where I serve as Pastor. This individual had to work on Sunday so they were unable to be in service that day. But  a portion of this passage of scripture was included in the message that I spoke on Sunday. Take a moment and allow these words to sink into your heart. They will remind you of the incredible love that God has for you as well as His intense desire to fight with you and for you as you face the struggles of life. 

I was reading a devotion I have been doing. I usually read the NLT and then read The Message. This allows me to see the passage from two different viewpoints. I liked how The Message explains this passage, 

Romans 8:31-39, "So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture: They kill us in cold blood because they hate you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one. None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.” 

Those words should be able to serve as an encouragement to you today!!! You are loved and you are not alone!!!

PS The individual was my youngest son. Him and his family attend our local church.