Love this quote from Mike Yaconelli:
In Romans 8, Paul says, "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."
In response, Yaconelli says, "Paul uses lots of religious words here, but the bottom line is we are all stuck with God's love whether we want to be or not. The words, 'nor anything else in all creation' mean that nothing can stop God from loving us. Nothing. He just keeps loving us. In modern language, you could say, 'Neither failure nor poor church attendance, nor inadequate Bible reading and prayer, nor betrayal, denial, doubt, insecurity, guilt, weakness, bad theology, or even losing our temper can separate us from the love of God.' God loves us when we don't want him to love us. He loves us when we don't act like Christians. He loves us when our lives are a mess. His love is sticky, resistant to rejection, aggressive, and persistent. The challenge is on, so go ahead...resist his love, run from it, hide from it. Go ahead and try." (Messy Spirituality, p. 124)
His point is, obviously, that we can neither run nor hide from God's amazing love. That is truly good news, and I couldn't have said it better myself, so I quoted Mike.
