Against The Wall

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? - Romans 8:35


On April 25, 1915, soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli penisula expecting a quick victory. But before fierce resistance by the Turkish defenders resulted in an 8-month stalemate during which thousands on both sides were wouded or killed.

Many of the ANZAC troops who were evacuated to Egypt visited the YMCA camp outside Cairo where chaplain Oswald Chambers offered hopitality and hope to these men so broken and disillusioned by war. With great insight and compassion, Chambers told them, "No man is the same after an agony; he is either better or worse, and the agony of a man's experience is nearly always the first thing that opens his mind to understand the need of redemption worked out by Jesus Christ. At the back of the wall of the world stands God with His arms outstretched, and every man driven there is driven into the arms of God. The cross of Jesus is the supreme evidence of the love of God."

Paul asked: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?" (Rom. 8:35). His confident answer was that nothing can remove us from God's love in Christ (w. 38-39).


God knows each winding way I take
And every sorrow, pain, and ache;
His children He will not forsake -
He knows and loves His own. - Bosch

God's love still stands when all else has fallen.

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What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered his up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, not depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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