Inseparable

I was raised in a church environment where I was never sure that if I died, I’d go to heaven, because I might have had a bad thought or done something at the last minute that would disqualify me. Maybe that idea was due to my young uneducated interpretation, I don’t know, but I “got saved” a lot just to make sure. 

I’ve met a lot of people in my pastoral years who live like they aren’t far from my youthful interpretation, struggling with thoughts that something they had done would keep them out of heaven. They think that whatever it was made them unworthy and separated them from God’s love. They have no victory. They lack the secure hope that each Christ-follower has.

Without debating the opposing theological positions of the eternal security of the believer, I have a few things to say on the subject.

I believe Scripture is clear that no external force, condition or circumstance can cause us to “lose our salvation.” Romans 8:31-39 is a key passage regarding this subject.The only caveat I would insert in this discussion is that a genuine Christ-follower strives to live a holy life and obey Jesus’s teachings. Jesus said that this is what identifies true disciples.

What are the things that are powerless to separate us?

Tribulation? Hardship ? Persecution? Famine? Nakedness? Danger? Sword? NO! We are more than conquerors.

Death or Life? Angels or Demons? Powers? Height or depth? Anything else in creation? NO! Nothing that happens in the present or the future will be able to separate us!

Paul says “If God is for us, who can be against us?” Jesus is interceding with the Father reminding Him for whom His Son died. Who is that? It’s YOU and ME!

As I look toward the future through the lens of my past, I encourage you to be victorious. You are MORE than a conqueror. Live your life knowing that God’s love and you are inseparable.