There are some days when I am reading the scripture and working on this morning devotionat, that I have a passage that I feel the need to explain a little. I feel the next to expand it. Or explain it. Or work with it. There is something I need to “do” to help you better understand what God is saying it.

Or perhaps help you to see something about it in a new way. Maybe to think about it in a way that you’ve never thought about it before.

I’m a preacher. That’s what I do 🙂 It’s what I really love doing, and in doing it I hope I’m a help to your faith.

That can be the joy of scripture. We can read the same passage, over, and over, and over again, but each time get something different out of it; each time here the Lord say something that we didn’t expect to hear.

Today, though, today is a passage that I want you to just listen to do. Today, no matter where you are, and what you are doing (unless you are driving when reading this!) I want you to stop.

Stop what you are doing. Take a five-minute break from work.

Slow yourself. Breathe. And listen to what Paul writes in Romans 8:

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 hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As 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 God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Today, I don’t really have a lot to add to that. Just think about it.

Nothing will separate you from God’s love. Nothing. Nothing you have ever done. Nothing you could ever do. Nothing in creation. Nothing at all. Nothing.

God loves more today than He ever has. God loves you.

Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God has given everything to know you, to love you, to save you.

You are loved. Block away everything that’s ever happened in your life. Block away every mistake. Every failing. Every fault. Everything.

And know that you are loved today. Nothing can separate you from that love.

Are you living out that love today? Outside of living through God’s love, we will always be restless. But, living in the power of God’s love, we’ll find life.

Today, nothing can separate you. Nothing. Live in that love.