Nothing...

To use that word often creates a bold statement. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do… Nothing can be done now… Nothing will ever change this… You get the point. Many times we use words like nothing without realizing the big meaning it brings with it. Have you ever told (or been told) there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for you, I love you. There’s a good chance that at some point you asked this person to jump off a bridge they wouldn’t do it. However, there are instances in the Bible where the word nothing is appropriate. Take a look…

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 created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 NKJV

There is literally NOTHING that can separate us from God and His immense love for us. To say that He just simply loves us, doesn’t accurately display His emotion to us. The English language doesn’t have a word to describe it. For example, I love ketchup, I love my brother, & I love my wife and son. I think (I hope) everyone would understand that I don’t love ketchup the same way I love my brother. Also that I don’t love my wife and son the same way that I do my brother. Yet for all three we use the same one word, love. God’s love is best defined in the Greek language, agape= unconditional love. This is far greater than my love for ketchup, my brother, or my wife. Some would argue the closest love we understand is the love between a parent and a child, but even that doesn’t scratch the surface of God’s love.

I’m a numbers guy, so let’s say my love for ketchup is ranked at a 4, my brother an 8, my wife a 15, and my child 25. (It’s hard to rank these loves because they are different types of love, but I’ve ranked them for the purpose of this illustration). If these numbers are accurate, God’s love for me and for you on this same scale would be roughly 1 billion. I think now you can better understand how NOTHING can separate us from God and His love. If this is truly the case, the least we could do is love Him back and tell someone else about how much God loves them.