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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Yeah, Well You Don’t Know What I’ve Done

Sunday’s Second Reading is from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans 8:35, 37-39. Take a few minutes to read it now.

This week is following the theme that nothing can separate us from God and that He will provide what we need. Today we focus on the fact that nothing can separate us from Christ.

Paul lists many things that can challenge us: anguish, distress, persecution, famine, peril and sword. These might not be every day things in your life but you get the picture. Sometimes we let our emotions or physical condition pull us away from God.

Saint Paul tells us that all these things were already conquered for us by Christ, simply because He loved us. How would life be different if you lived life like this true? What if you didn’t allow your emotions to control you? What if you didn’t let life’s circumstances defeat you? It is wasted energy because they aren’t in your hands anyway.

Saint Paul concludes by listing many powerful things that still cannot separate us from Christ like: death, life, the present, the future, power or creatures. He loves us that much.

You might be thinking, “That’s great in theory but you have no idea what I’ve done.” You are right, I don’t. But God does and listen to what St. Paul is telling you in spite of it….Christ still loves you. He is longing to give you the things you need that were mentioned in yesterday’s song.

Today rejoice in the fact that nothing you’ve done and nothing that will happen in the future will make Christ stop loving you.

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