I love this reading. It was my go to reading after my accident. God is good! 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.
We all love our children, no matter what they do. Some of us have lost loved ones, agonise over loves in our past. Our 'love' is infinitesmially less than God's love for EACH of us! I have sinners in my family who think God cannot forgive them. In fact, they think on human terms and think they are unforgivable. God created EVERY soul for Eternity with Him. We need only repent and, like a parent, He will welome us with open arms! Pray our relatives, indeed, all who have 'lost the faith' or never experienced it [ Hindus, Muslims, etc] see this in 'the end.'
