“Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:37–39
During World War II while working with a team of scientists to develop new materials for gun sights, Harry Coover, Jr. discovered a substance they named cyanoacrylate. It was unsuitable for their purpose so it was set aside. But a few years later when Coover was working for Eastman Kodak, he came up with a use for cyanoacrylate in a product that almost all of us have used. In 1958, the company began selling an adhesive called Eastman 910, the first commercially available version of what we today commonly call super glue. It stuck to almost any surface, and created a bond that was almost impossible to break.
God’s love for us is an even more powerful adhesive. There is nothing in Heaven or on Earth that can dissolve the bond of that love. The devil comes and tells us that God cannot or will not love us because of what we have done or failed to do. This is a lie. God’s love for us is not dependent on us, but is an unchanging part of His nature. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Most of us have been disappointed or let down by people we trusted and counted on. Most of us have had people turn against us for one reason or another. God never fails. His love for us is eternal and unchanging—a bond that cannot be broken. We can rely on it because love is who God is.
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