Friday, January 6, 2012

UV 291-10,000 Romans 8 v 39

Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


Death is one of the principal enemies of mankind. The other twin ally being sin or separation from God. Together these ensure that romantic love, labour, wealth,pleasure, fame, wisdom and conquests are all in vain. (Only God sees that sin is an even bigger enemy) Death slew the greatest conqueror in human history, Alexander the Great. A simple Indian malarial mosquito is said to have killed him. That makes that mosquito( we may say proudly Indian) a greater conqueror than Alexander. When Alexander died, legend has it, that both of his hands were extended palm up out of two holes in his grand coffin to show that he took nothing from his extensive conquests with him. Death had separated him from his conquests, his triumphs, his wealth.. No wonder that the fear of death envelops and paralyses all of mankind before and since.
Christ alone in all of history proved that the love of God both hidden and manifested in His person was greater than death and sin. If any one else claims to have done this and has demonstrated it non-verbally in action, he or she deserves our attention and our worship. But, the unique love of Christ manifested in His birth, life, death and resurrection makes Him alone Lord ( Love that Rises over death) of our lives.

Living in an age of Roman conquest and rule, St Paul by the time he was inspired to write this had matured both in his faith and his knowledge and understanding of God’s love to affirm that we are more than conquerors, that nothing in all of reality can now separate us from the love of God in Christ. We have an absolute sense of security and absolute security in this assurance that no force or person or event can rob us of. The depth of God’s love demonstrated in Christ exceeds any depth of turmoil or sorrow or loss that any of us can ever go through. It will see us through the deepest valley. The height of God’s love in Christ exceeds the height of any challenge or difficulty. It will take us over the highest mountains. The length of God’s love in Christ exceeds by far the duration of any of our ailments or grievances. It will see us endure it. After we deal with all of it, we will still have enough surplus faith and fruit to take with us into the heavenly realms. We will not go empty handed like Alexander. We will bear fruit on both banks of the river of life, while living and after physical death.

Prateep V Philip

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