Course: Faith Over Fear
February 17, 2022 | Dave Rueter
Passage: Romans 8:38-39
Nothing Can Separate
Life changes. That is simply reality. Try as we might, we cannot prevent change from taking place. Jobs change, families change, relationships change, life just changes. That realization makes Paul’s claim about the permanence of God’s promised relationship with us all the more startling.
With a change in life, often comes separation. We might have family or friends a time zone or even continents away. While technology can bring us closer together, a Zoom between a father and son is not the same thing as sitting in the same room or being able to do life in the same space as those we love. This pulling apart that takes place in life can plant seeds of loneliness that can grow into fear.
Thus Paul reminds us just how steadfast the love of God is. The list provided is a powerful one. Paul sets out a set of extremes implying the range covered by God’s steadfastness: death, life, angels, rules, present, future, powers, height, depth, and just for good measure anything else in all creation. This is a rather impressive list and tells us an awful lot about the extent to which God will go to stick with us.
Thoughts for Reflection
How does God’s steadfastness bring you comfort in your life?
Course Information
There are a great many things that a capable of causing us to fear. Yet, God instructs us many times in Scripture to "fear not." In this series, we will explore how it is that God casts out our fear, enabling us to live lives of faith over fear.
