Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of Christ-Nope Not Even COVID-19

Hi friends!

As many of you know we are in the middle of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Our lives have changed as we know it, at least for the next couple months.

We are forced to slow down and stay at home as much as possible. 

Over the last week, many new routines and adjustments were made. 

I don’t know if this is true for you too but I found myself in a funk.

I pretty much spent the whole week in pajamas and only left the house a handful of times to buy necessities. 

My daughter was at her dads for spring break so I was all alone. As much as I tried to keep my normal routine I kind of gave up. If there’s nowhere to be, no one to meet, then why do all these things? That is how my logic flowed at least.  

With all this silence and available time, much self reflection has been done.  

The realization that so much of my sense of security and comfort came from life’s routines and the structure that it brought. The constants that gave me a sense of security, my place in the world, a sort of identity and purpose.

I just want to add one side note about self reflection. Self reflection is a good thing, if we are taking it back to God and asking Him for example, “in light of this new realization, how do you want me to change?”  or “What are you showing me through this?” Otherwise self reflection with no action items from God just becomes self focus.  

On another front, my morning time with God has been dull during this time. 

But this morning I resolved to wake up earlier than I had all week and seek God earnestly and wholeheartedly.

At last, The Lord broke through the mental funk I’d been in all week.  The Lord spoke to me quietly, “’I’m with you.” And “Who can separate you from the love of Christ?”

The latter part I recognized as coming from Romans 8:35-38 which says “ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “ 

I’m comforted this morning by God’s special touch and reminder to my soul and I hope you’re encouraged as well that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ! 

No created thing.

No virus.

No illness.

No famine. 

No persecution.

None of these things can stop the connection we have to our mighty God. 

He’s able to reach us in the darkest places even in the most unusual of circumstances.  Even when our routines are broken, when our lives are jumbled around and nothing makes sense anymore. 

We can take comfort knowing that God is always there. Nothing and I mean nothing can separate us from Him! 

I pray for you out there somewhere that you would be encouraged and to keep hope alive during these very strange times. 

Agape xoxo, 

Miri