God's Love Is So Strong!

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by: Denise Robinson

03/27/2024

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Natalee Creech wrote a children's book in 2022 titled "Nothing" ("Nothing Can Separate You from God's Love!"). In the opening pages, a young child asks, "Can anything separate me from God's love?"  The answer: "Not a mountain or valley, not the deepest of seas, not a rainstorm or hailstorm, or a cold winter freeze. Not a rumbling volcano, not an earthquake or flood, not a swirling tornado or a sinkhole of mud. There's nothing so powerful, nothing so strong. God's love is too high and too deep and too long! If I hopped on a train and I rode it all night, if I boarded a plane for an overseas flight, if I soared in a rocket past planets in space, could I ever outdistance God's love and God's grace?"
The book draws its inspiration from Romans 8:38-39 where the Apostle Paul writes: "I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord; not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or depth, or any other thing that is created."
This message is important for children but also for us older folks as well. Deep down, I know that God loves me, but there are times, if I'm honest, when I have my doubts. Usually, those doubts are the strongest when I am having difficulty loving - or even liking - myself. But the truth is that God's love for you, and for me, is unconditional. In a world that so often based acceptance, let alone love, on outward appearances or always being agreeable and accommodating, that kind of love is hard to understand and accept. But there it is; written in God's word for us. 
During the Lenten season, we remember that God's greatest example of his love is seen in the love, grace, and sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus didn't die for us because we are perfect or deserving or even always lovable. Jesus died for us because we're imperfect, messed up, mixed up, and overall all-too-human ... and because God created us and loves us anyway. 
“There is nothing so powerful, nothing so strong: God’s love is too high and too deep and too long!” 
You are a loved child of God.
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Natalee Creech wrote a children's book in 2022 titled "Nothing" ("Nothing Can Separate You from God's Love!"). In the opening pages, a young child asks, "Can anything separate me from God's love?"  The answer: "Not a mountain or valley, not the deepest of seas, not a rainstorm or hailstorm, or a cold winter freeze. Not a rumbling volcano, not an earthquake or flood, not a swirling tornado or a sinkhole of mud. There's nothing so powerful, nothing so strong. God's love is too high and too deep and too long! If I hopped on a train and I rode it all night, if I boarded a plane for an overseas flight, if I soared in a rocket past planets in space, could I ever outdistance God's love and God's grace?"
The book draws its inspiration from Romans 8:38-39 where the Apostle Paul writes: "I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord; not death or life, not angels or rulers, not present things or future things, not powers or height or depth, or any other thing that is created."
This message is important for children but also for us older folks as well. Deep down, I know that God loves me, but there are times, if I'm honest, when I have my doubts. Usually, those doubts are the strongest when I am having difficulty loving - or even liking - myself. But the truth is that God's love for you, and for me, is unconditional. In a world that so often based acceptance, let alone love, on outward appearances or always being agreeable and accommodating, that kind of love is hard to understand and accept. But there it is; written in God's word for us. 
During the Lenten season, we remember that God's greatest example of his love is seen in the love, grace, and sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus didn't die for us because we are perfect or deserving or even always lovable. Jesus died for us because we're imperfect, messed up, mixed up, and overall all-too-human ... and because God created us and loves us anyway. 
“There is nothing so powerful, nothing so strong: God’s love is too high and too deep and too long!” 
You are a loved child of God.
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