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“No separation from the Love of God” is the theme for our reflection. To separate means to cause one thing or person to move or be apart from the other. Paul emphasized Christ’s inseparable love for those who are saved.

Beloved in the Lord, two major categories of things can adversely affect the relationship of two people or separate people from the love they have for each other. These are human and non-human causes. A person or group of persons may decide to devise an evil plan to separate one person from the other, it is for this reason Paul wrote that “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (Romans 8:35) Although human beings may separate two people through the aforementioned ways apart from famine, no one can use that which is humanly possible to separate us from the love of Christ. God demonstrated love to us through Christ. Although the enemies of Jesus made him go through persecution, crucifixion and death, God resurrected Him on the third day. No one through an an evil act or wickedness can separate us from the love of Christ! In Christ, we live!

The second category of things that can cause separation are non-human causes or occurrences. These are things we usually have no control over either because they happen as result of a natural disaster or they are supernatural. Paul captured them when he wrote, “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). It is for this reason Paul reminds us again in Romans 14:8-9 that “For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end, Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.” Beloved in the Lord, you are never alone, Jesus loves and cares for you even in the most challenging moments of your life.

My dear friend, the love of a person ends with death but the love of Christ is active in our lives and transcends death. Advent season remind since nothing can separate us from the love of God, He will send His Son to return to grant eternal life to those who have held on to Him in faith and have endured all the hardships and tribulations. It is an everlasting and inseparable love. It is refreshing to note that the message of the first Advent of Jesus which we commemorate on Christmas is that “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) What, then, can separate us from this love? Nothing!

In summary, we have reflected on the theme “No separation from the love of God.” We have discovered that two major categories of things can adversely affect the relationship of two people or separate people from the love they have for each other. These are human and non-human causes. Both human and non-human events have no power to separate us from the love of God. Shalom.

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, let your everlasting and inseparable love cause us to remain faithful to you in every situation we find ourselves in. Amen.