"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

The title of this post is Romans 8:35. This is also the Scripture text of the day in My Utmost for His Highest (a.k.a. MUFHH after today's entry): "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"

Chambers begins by commenting, "God does not keep a man [or woman] immune from trouble; He says--"I will be with him in trouble."

Whatever we are facing, nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Paul is convinced of this (see Romans 8:28-39 for context). Why? There are at least two foundational reasons that strike me this morning.

1. "He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?" (Romans 8:32) And so God's love for us is not affected by what we have to offer or our current emotional state or anything else, because it depends on what He has already accomplished through Jesus.
2. His continual presence with us.