Sometimes I think we don't follow the love of God for the exact wording that we cling to Romans 8: 26-39. Separate. We love the idea that nothing can seperate us from the love of God. We find hope and grounding in the idea that the love of God cleaves to us, even in the most desperate and trying times in our lives.
But we struggling with the truth that the love of God also transforms us and calls us to separation. What do I mean by that? The love of God calls us to separate ourselves, by the power of the cross, from sin. It calls us to choose the way of God. It beckons us to do the will of God and follow where God leads. By the very virtue of choosing to fall into the love of God, we are excluding something else - we are choosing the option and way of God.
We live in a world where we think we can have everything - but in Paul's letter to the Romans, he is urging them to turn away from the path of sin - the path that leads to destruction and choose the life and love of Christ.
Let us choose to accept that love of God today. The love that will not let us go and will not give up on us. Let us choose to follow the way of the cross. Let us choose to turn from sin. Let us find the life abundant. Amen.
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