40 Days of Praise - Day 40
Day 40
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35
When it comes to songs that are sung, two types of songs seem to dominate the list. The first would be love songs that seek to woo the one I love, imagine being with the one I love, or celebrating the wonders of our love. The second would be the songs that flow from a broken heart because of unrealized dreams of romance, of a relationship that did not work where the two had to part company, and the songs of betrayal.
One of the great challenges of recent decades has been how to successfully do relationships. So many relationships begin, but so few make the distance of a lifetime. In fact, it’s come to the point that many no longer even expect to "live happily ever after." Wedding vows, when they are said at all, often get modified to say, “as long as we both shall love“ rather than “as long as we both shall live.”
Even parents and children are falling out of love and abandoning their relationship at alarming rates. Adult children frequently find themselves having to choose which parent to spend a holiday with because mom and dad are no longer together. And a current trend is to find fault with one’s parents and cancel them – stop calling, stop visiting, act like they don’t exist. Or a parent finds some reason to reject their children and end all connection.
The number of people receiving talk therapy is at an all-time high. Much of the conversation has to do with relationships.
In start contrast to that we are told that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Mother and father may reject us, brother and sister made despise us, spouses may disdain us, children resent us and friends abandon us. But Jesus will never, ever, ever stop, loving us. No matter how good it gets or how awful it becomes, He loves us. When we are wonderful and when we are horrible, He loves us. When everything and everyone is against us, still, He loves us.
Hope Church, may 2025 be a year in which our love for our wonderful Lord burns bright with passion throughout all of our days and over all of our ways.
My prayer is that these devotionals might be of some help along that path
Your pastor,
Charles M. Butler
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Romans 8:35
When it comes to songs that are sung, two types of songs seem to dominate the list. The first would be love songs that seek to woo the one I love, imagine being with the one I love, or celebrating the wonders of our love. The second would be the songs that flow from a broken heart because of unrealized dreams of romance, of a relationship that did not work where the two had to part company, and the songs of betrayal.
One of the great challenges of recent decades has been how to successfully do relationships. So many relationships begin, but so few make the distance of a lifetime. In fact, it’s come to the point that many no longer even expect to "live happily ever after." Wedding vows, when they are said at all, often get modified to say, “as long as we both shall love“ rather than “as long as we both shall live.”
Even parents and children are falling out of love and abandoning their relationship at alarming rates. Adult children frequently find themselves having to choose which parent to spend a holiday with because mom and dad are no longer together. And a current trend is to find fault with one’s parents and cancel them – stop calling, stop visiting, act like they don’t exist. Or a parent finds some reason to reject their children and end all connection.
The number of people receiving talk therapy is at an all-time high. Much of the conversation has to do with relationships.
In start contrast to that we are told that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Mother and father may reject us, brother and sister made despise us, spouses may disdain us, children resent us and friends abandon us. But Jesus will never, ever, ever stop, loving us. No matter how good it gets or how awful it becomes, He loves us. When we are wonderful and when we are horrible, He loves us. When everything and everyone is against us, still, He loves 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. (Romans 8:38-39)
Hope Church, may 2025 be a year in which our love for our wonderful Lord burns bright with passion throughout all of our days and over all of our ways.
My prayer is that these devotionals might be of some help along that path
Your pastor,
Charles M. Butler
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