Thursday, October 4, 2012

The Perfect Love...


I used to read and collect romance novels. I loved them and the conflict of love and drama that they had. The best part would be that argument or event that caused the couple to break up towards the end and what would lead them back to each other.  I couldn’t stand the books where the reconciliation  was too easy or unrealistic. What does this have to do anything, right? It’s really pretty simple, actually. People in those books were always looking for a perfect love that withstood every trial or problem they faced but one or the other of the characters always ended up compromising something to be what the other wanted. Aren’t you glad that God isn’t like that? He is the perfect love and nothing can separate us from Him.

I’ve shared before how much I love Romans 8. It has one of my most called upon scriptures in Romans 8:28 that has gotten me through so much. But today God sent me further down in the chapter. Just like the characters of romance novels, many of us are looking for perfection in life and love. We want everything to go according to plan and we don’t like it when things go off course. Sometimes, it’s hard to admit that we are the ones that usually cause our own problems. But regardless, God never promised us an easy way. As a matter of fact, look at what Jesus had to endure for our victory. Jesus said himself, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.” (John 15:18) Unfortunately you don’t get a pass on the hard things of life. But no matter what you do or have done to you, Paul tells us that there is one thing you can be sure of.  For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,  nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8: 38-39 NKJV)

I have heard that scripture all of my life but the older I get and the more I experience the more it means to me. No matter what the enemy puts in my way. No matter what I put in my own way, God will still love me. I want you to really put that in your spirit. Okay, so that man cheated on you, that supervisor treats you unfairly, that doctor put a time limit on your life. If God be for you, who can be against you?! Sometimes we make the pain and hurt so much our friend that we get lost in it. The enemy wants you to believe that you are unlovable and that your past sins are enough to keep you from getting the things you want or need. But the word of God says Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?  (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”)  No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.(Rom. 8: 35-37 NLT)

So, maybe you are in the fight scene of this particular chapter of your life. Let the fact that God is a perfect lover comfort you and take you onto the next chapter. He won’t play games with your mind nor will he leave you to pick up the pieces alone. He is a faithful and ever present God. The problem is we usually leave Him before the part where He puts you back together again. We go looking for our own solutions and often times go backwards and end up repeating  parts of our story that we should have left in chapter 1.

The New King James Version of Romans 8:37 says “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” That means that no matter what you are facing or have faced, you have the victory because He loves you! I will take that statement over a whole book of what the world has to offer. You have the victory over that cancer! You have the victory over that struggling marriage! You have the victory over that mounting debt! You’ll be hard pressed to find where God says He deals with some of your issues. The Bible says ,”Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them  ALL! (Psalm 34:19 NASB) That’s love, y’all!  So if you are looking for a perfect love that will never fail, try my God! He can do anything BUT fail!

Peace and blessings…AMEN

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