Monday, May 25, 1998
Monday, May 25, 1998
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
The cross of Jesus Christ is the herald of God's power. The herald is the good news or the
announcement of God's power and plan.
How do you and I live our lives each day? How do we deal with temptation and peer pressure
and all the choices we must make each day of our lives? There is only one way we can claim
victory and that is through the power of the cross. The cross alone has the power to lift us above
all these circumstances.
Romans 8:35 says, "Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" The only way you and I can be over
comers, the only way we can be victorious, is by the death, burial, and resurrection with Christ.
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39)
That means, my brothers and sisters in Christ, that in any given circumstances you and God make
a majority of one. You don't need to watch the Gallup Polls. You just keep your mind, body, and
soul fixed on the Lord Jesus Christ. For Christ will help us to overcome all things by the power of
the cross.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, may the power of your cross keep me lifted up in the name of God.
Amen.
Ronald Newhouse, Texas, USA
(Romans 8:35
NRSV)