Week 3 Aug. 14

 

This week's readings were 2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Romans ch. 1-8. 

As I was reading in Romans ch. 8:36-39 caught my eye and I really liked what it said,

“As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep 

for the slaughter. 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.” That is a beautiful thought that I think we need to be reminded about. 

It reminds me of a conference talk The Laborers in the Vineyard by Jeffery R. Holland he 

said, “I do not know who in this vast audience today may need to hear the message of 

forgiveness inherent in this parable, but however late you think you are, however many 

chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made or 

talents you think you don’t have, or however far from home and family and God you feel 

you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is 

not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines.”

 

I may not always feel worthy of this kind of love but I still always know it's there 

and I'm grateful for that.