(July 13, 2015)
Two
things struck me in my reading of these chapters. The first, of course, was Paul’s wonderful
language that nothing could separate us from the love of God. I believe, as C. S. Lewis has described, that
in the Final Judgment that it will not be us begging to stay with Christ but
rather Christ begging us to stay with Him (and, if we are lost, it will be by
our choice). Of course, I don’t know
that this is true, but it seems to make sense to me. That seems consistent with what Paul is
saying here – nothing (not even our own weaknesses) can separate us from God
unless we choose to leave Him.
The
second thought was on the fact that not even martyrdom was worthy to be
compared with our Glory we will experience hereafter. If that is the case, and I don’t doubt that it
is, what do any of us have to complain about during times of trial and
difficulty? Of course, the reality is
that there is nothing we truly have to complain about.
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