Scripture: Romans 8:31-39
Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Reaction: Today I was feeling down for various reasons, but my scripture reflection helped put things into perspective. I know that my woes are really trivial, nothing like persecution or famine or peril. I also know that my anguish and distress are, for the most part, self-imposed. But regardless of the cause or extent of my anxiety, nothing can separate me from the love of the Lord. As I lay awake last night, again suffering from insomnia, I called upon the Lord to be with me, and He answered my plea. I was able to put aside my troubles for a while and get back to sleep, imagining myself walking and talking with Christ. Today, even though my worries resurface periodically, I am to diffuse them by talking with the Lord, thanking Him for all of the good things He has given me, especially His love and salvation.
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