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? … nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” Romans 8:35, 38).
For 59 years, they were each other’s everything. And then he was gone.
May had finally gotten outside to work in her garden a year after her husband passed away. The love of her life had been Don, a tall, athletic man that she’d made a life with. May wore Don’s wedding ring on her finger. She never took it off. But when she looked down at her hand that morning as she worked in the dirt, the ring was gone! Distraught, she searched the garden for two hours, praying and crying at the same time. Finally, she called her sister-in-law in dismay. “May,” her sister-in-law told her, “I know how Don loved you, but you’ve been relying on Don’s love, not Jesus’. It’s time to realize that.”
May recognized the truth in her sister-in-law’s words. She prayed again and went to search for the ring one last time. There, right on top of the dirt, lay the ring. May shares it was as if Jesus was saying to her, “I know what that ring meant to you. Now I want it to remind you of My love for you.”
“Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love?” the Bible book of Romans asks. “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? … nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love” (Romans 8:35, 38).
Whatever loss you’re facing today, whatever difficulty you’re going through, God loves you and is for you. Nothing can change that.
