Nothing can separate you from the love of Christ. Nothing.

I have felt a little stuck over this past year in what to send to your email inbox. Words to address the year didn’t come. Nothing seem to fit. There weren’t words to ease the tension, calm the angst, or fix the pandemic. I wonder how you are today as you sit reading this note. How’s your heart? What hurt has struck you this year? What loss has emotionally exhausted you? What trials have caused you to feel unrest in your heart?

Here’s one thing to hold onto today.

Nothing can separate you from the love Christ. Nothing.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword…No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ” Romans 8:35, 37-39

There has been so much separation this year. You’ve perhaps been separated from your family, your loved ones, your church, activities you love, friends…normalcy. In all the social distancing, perhaps you have felt alone and isolated. There’s a physical separation you have experienced due to the pandemic, but there’s also an emotional separation. You miss your people. You miss the places you go. You miss normalcy. And as the world has been under such a trial, perhaps you’ve felt spiritually separate…spiritually disconnected from God. You’re wondering where He is. You’re wondering when He will bring us back to normal. You’re wondering how to cope with all your questions.

God has never left you. He never distanced Himself from you over the course of this year. Even in your hardship, your pain, and your trials, He is with you. When you can’t feel Him, He’s still there. When the world feels like it’s crumbly, He’s with you. When fear bubbles up in your heart, He’s with you.

A pandemic, a loss, or a trial can’t separate you from the love of Christ. Of course, that truth doesn’t wash away the ache we feel or take away the pain. But you’re not alone in your pain. You don’t walk alone through this life.

So today, when it feels like there’s no light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, when it feels like there’s no hope for your trial to resolve, when it feels like the sun just isn’t coming out in your circumstances,

Remember that NOTHING can separate you from the love of Christ. Nothing.

Hold on, dear sister. The Son is coming. He’s on a mission to bring light back into your heart and your life. He will redeem your 2020. And as you walk through 2021, remember that you do not walk alone. Not once. Not for second.

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