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September 5
Saturday


LIFE IS GOOD

READ:
Romans 8:31-39
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I am persuaded that
[nothing] shall be able
to separate us from the
love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.
__Romans 8:38-39
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While shopping in a nearby tourist town, I wandered into a small store stuffed with clothing and other items all marked with the slogan "Life is good." Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of that simple truth.

When the work of earning a living, raising a family, maintaining health and fitness, and managing relationships starts to overwhelm us, it's good to think about how small our part in the universe really is. While we obsess over our work, God quietly does his . He keeps the earth rotating, the planets revolving, and the seasons changing. Without any help from us, He makes the sun rise every morning and set every evening. Every night He changes the pattern of lights in the sky. He turns out the light so we can sleep, and turns it on again so we can see to work and play. Without lifting a finger, we get to enjoy sunrises and sunsets. Every year the seasons change on schedule. We don't need to pray about it or tell God that it's time to send spring. All that He does reminds us He is good (Acts 14:17).

Life will at times be difficult, often it is painful, and for now it is imperfect. But still it is good, for in all these things nothing can separate us from God's lavish expressions of love (Rom. 8:39). __Julie Ackerman Link
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```````````Thank You, loving Father, for the good gift of life.`````````
``````````Forgive me for making it complicated for myself and````````
````````````others. I thank You and praise You for all You do````````
````````````````so that I can enjoy so much. Amen.```````````````
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God's grace is immeasurable; His mercy inexhaustible;
His peace inexpressible.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Romans 8:31-39************

31 What then shall we say
to these things? If God is
for us, who can be against
us? 32 He who did not spare
his own Son, but delivered
him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely
give us all things? 33 Who
shall bring a charge against
God's elect? It is God who
justifies. 14 Who is he who
condemns? It is Christ who
died, and furthermore is
also risen, who is even at
the right hand of God, who
also makes intercession for
us. 35 Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine,
or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? 36 As it is written:
"For Your sake we are
killed all day long; we are
accounted as sheep for the
slaughter."

37 Yet in all these things
we are more than
conquerors through Him
who loved us. 38 For I am
persuaded that neither death
nor life, nor angels nor
principalities nor powers,
nor things present nor
things to come, 39 nor
height nor depth, nor any
other created thing, shall be
able to separate us from the
love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

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