Romans 8:31-39

I like gorilla glue.  What it sticks, stay stuck.  If you glue two pieces by mistake, you are out of luck.  It is impossible to separate, once the glue has dried.  I have tried by driving a wedge into the joint and the wood brakes before the glue.  That is the way our relationship with God is.  We have a spiritual enemy that wants to drive a wedge between God and us. 

Our enemy seeks to separate us from God by using the wedge of hardship and suffering.  He knows that it is impossible to drive God away from us, so he is seeking to drive us away from God.  He does not understand the nature of a righteous relationship.  In the midst of hardship, we do not turn away from the one we love and the one who loves us; rather the hardship drives us closer together.  Satan uses wicked men to threaten us with danger and pain hoping to destroy our relationship.  Fear cannot destroy love.  In the midst of the greatest suffering, love grows.  Death once separated us, but on the cross, death lost all its power.  When Christ conquered death and the grave, with him we became conquerors as well.  Height and depth cannot separate us.  “Height and depth” in Hellenistic Greek were terms for the highest and lowest points reached by a star.  They had a belief that men’s lives were fated by the stars. We do not have to fear astrology.  We do not have to fear that angles or demons will come between God and us. We do not have to fear our past, our present nor our future.  There is no power in all creation powerful enough to separate us from God’s love against our will.  Our freewill might allow us to separate from God, but it would break us.  We would have to do throw away our salvation, because we cannot lose it and nothing can take it.  Cling to God; He will never let you go.