Nothing can separate us from the
love of God in Christ Jesus. (Saint Paul
to the Romans, 8:31-39)
Nothing.
Again, I say it: nothing.
Not our sins, nor our weakness,
nor our failings, nor our crimes, nor our lack of faith, nor our
discouragement, nor anything else that is within you that you believe stands as
an obstacle between you and God’s love.
God is greater than your
barriers, than your doubt, than your forgetfulness, than your settling for
mediocrity, than your obstinate and total resistance.
One thing is dangerous: the
belief or insistence that you are going to solve the problem that is your life without
God. But even then, God has ways of working things out so that you eventually
come to your senses. It might take a lifetime, but for God a lifetime is as
brief as a snap of the fingers. And God will let you suffer until you reach a
point where you finally cry out, “O God, help me!” And then the miracle begins
all over again.
And it doesn’t help to proclaim
that you are an atheist. The atheist also has faith: he believes in Not-God.
But even Not-God is God, and he will reach through, and he will continue to
love and bless the atheist with anything and everything that keeps him close
even if he refuses to believe.
Some people are so fed up with
religion (for very good reasons, mind you) that they want nothing to do with
church or ritual. (The miracle is that some of us still cling to church and
ritual despite everything.) But for those who cannot, God
draws them through another attraction or path.
Nothing can separate us from the
love of God.
Nothing within you; nothing
outside of you.
Be at peace.
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