TESTED & APPROVED

QUICKENED EYE GLANCE: Today I woke up feeling quite low. By the time I went to the grocery store I was very weary physically and emotionally. I had gone through a lot of testing this year and feeling like I'd had my faith stretched to the max. As I was thinking about being tested, my eye followed the meat that the lady was wrapping up for me and thought about strong meat sometimes being hard to swallow. My eye landed on the big letters on the back of her meat weighing scale... TESTED & APPROVED.

Rom 8:35-39 NLT

Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? (Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep." ) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.