Hi there, and thanks for joining us for this Saturday edition of Our Daily Bread.

Yuhana Ong wrote today's reading, and she titled it Nothing Can Separate.

When Pris's father, a pastor, answered God's call to pioneer a mission on a small island in Indonesia,

Pris' family found themselves living in a rundown shack once used to house animals.

Pris remembers the family celebrating Christmas, sitting on the floor and singing praises while rainwater dripped down the thatched roof.

But her father reminded her,

Pris, just because we are poor doesn't mean God doesn't love us.

Some may see a life blessed by God as one that's filled with riches, health, and longevity.

So in times of hardship, they may wonder if they're still loved by him.

But in Romans chapter 8 verses 31 through 39, Paul reminds us that nothing can separate us

from Jesus' love, including trouble, hardship, persecution, and famine. This is the foundation for a truly blessed life.

God showed his love for us by sending His Son Jesus to die for our sins. Christ rose from death

and is now sitting at the right hand of the Father interceding for us.

In times of suffering, we can hold fast to the comforting truth that our life is rooted

in what Christ has done for us.

Nothing, neither death nor life, nor anything else in all creation, can separate us

from His love.

Whatever our circumstance, whatever our hardship, may we be reminded that God is with us

and that nothing can separate us from Him.

Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Romans chapter 8 verses 31 through 39.

What then shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also,

along with him, graciously give us all things?

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