Your Place in the Family Is Secure

God doesn’t love like people love…

My parents loved me. I knew they loved me. But on a few occasions, I would be disobedient. Or do something I knew would displease my parents. Sometimes, I would wonder if they would stop loving me.

Anytime I questioned their love—even in the slightest way—their response was always the same: “You don’t have to worry, little girl. Your place is secure.” Deep down I knew it. Still, the reassurance didn’t hurt. My place in the family was secure.

Our parents may or may not be good at making us feel secure in their love. Our spouses, our children, our friends may or may not be good at making us feel secure in their love. People are sometimes fickle and sometimes love temporarily or conditionally.

Thankfully, God doesn’t love like people love. God will never…NEVER…stop loving us. Through our failures, through our mistakes, through our sin, in spite of our bad decisions, our heavenly Father will ALWAYS love us.

Let’s slow-read Romans 8:35:

“Who could ever separate us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love.”

Do you hear the words used to describe God’s love for you? Endless love. Undiminished love. Omnipotent love. Nothing can separate us from God’s eternal, steadfast, powerful, outrageous love.

Friend, our place is secure. Nothing can separate us from God’s love. Nothing we do, nothing we experience, nothing that comes against us can cause God to stop loving us. It’s just plain impossible.

So, relax. Take a deep breath and breathe it out slowly. We are held safely in God’s hand. We hold a place of honor in God’s heart. We are now, and always will be, deeply loved.

Dear God, thank you so much for your outrageous love. It fills me and surrounds me. Help me to love you and love other people with my whole heart. Help me live a life that brings glory to you. And when I mess up—and I will—remind me that absolutely nothing will stop your love for me. Remind me that my place is secure. In Jesus’s name, amen.