Jesus Loves Me

According to the story, the great intellectual man (I think he was even a theologian) was asked by someone after a lecture, "what's the greatest thought you've ever had?" His reply was swift and simple: "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!" In his "time alone with God" book and instructions, John Maxwell said, in your time with God you need some time to just sit and "let God love you." That was a new one for me! That's what verses I read this morning allowed me to do -- sit and bask in the Father's love.

³⁵ 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? ³⁶ (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) ³⁷ No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

³⁸ And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^b]">[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. ³⁹ 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. (Romans 8:35-39 NLT)