Nothing Can "Separate Us From God's Love" - Conclusion of Jehovah Actively Demonstrates His Love

No balanced Christian would use such evidence of God's love and esteem as an excuse for pride or egotism.  The apostle Paul wrote:  "Through the undeserved kindness given to me I tell everyone there among you not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think; but to think so as to have a sound mind, each one of you as God has distributed to him a measure of faith." (Romans 12:3)  Another translation says here:  "I would say to everyone one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself." (A Translation in the Language of the People, by Charles B. Williams)  So while you bask in the warmth of our heavenly Father's love, let us be sound in mind and remember that we neither earn nor deserve God's love. - Luke 17:10.

Let each of us do everything in our power to reject all of Satan's lies, including the lie that we are worthless or unlovable. If your experience in life have taught you to see yourself as an obstacle too daunting even for God's immense love to  surmount, or your good works as too insignificant even for his all-seeing eyes to notice, or your sins  too vast even for death of his precious Son to cover, you have been taught a lie.  Reject such lies with all your heart!  Let us continue to assure our hearts withe truth expressed in Paul's inspired words: "I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come not powers nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God's love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." -Romans 8:38, 39.

Next time: Chapter 25/"The Tender Compassion of Our God"

From the book: Draw Close to Jehovah