What does your relationship with God depend on? Things that you do? Things that you don’t do? Can you lose your relationship with God? Can you have a relationship with God and then do something that causes God to kick you out of his family? Check out this passage.

Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?… No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I grew up believing that I could lose my relationship with God. I thought that my status as a child of God hung in the balance every day based on my actions. I had been taught that my relationship with Jesus depended on me. How about you? What does your relationship with God depend on?

One day in my early twenties, I finally understood and grasped the truth found in today’s passage. God has promised that nothing can separate me from his love found in Christ alone. What peace and freedom there is in knowing that I am a child of God and will forever be! That is security!

Nothing in all creation can separate me from the love of God, not even death. That means that after death, God still loves me. That means that after death, I am aware of his love. That means that after death, I am still alive! For the believer, death is simply a transition from the love of God on earth to the love of God in heaven forever.

Dear Father, I stand firm in the truth that nothing can separate me from you. I know that no power in heaven or earth can remove me from your love. Today, I stand secure in Jesus. In his name, I pray. Amen.