Conquerors

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” (Romans 8:35)

A creative person, thousands of years ago, made one of the simplest of tools: the wedge. A wedge is an object made of iron, wood, or other thick material on one side that narrows down to the opposite side. The wedge is useful to split, separate, or prop something open. A safely used iron wedge can split a boulder; an ax, another form of a wedge, can split a large log; wooden wedges are useful for keeping a door open or help seal a gap.

As useful as a wedge is, the opposite is true of destructive and disguised “wedges” that creep into our lives unnoticed: the unstable person who rejoices in separating friends, spouses, coworkers, or causes discord among a congregation of believers; an unexpected illness or monetary crisis may be the culprit; a false accusation that ended your employment. . .

A wedge used correctly is helpful but wrongly used, as in relational separations, causes grief. But the Apostle Paul declared there was nothing (no wedge) that could separate us from God’s love. No situation, person, or thing in heaven or on Earth—no power, angel, or demon; no trouble that might come our way, not even life or death, could separate us from the love of God (vs. 38–39). Paul’s life-experiences confirmed this fact for him, and the Holy Spirit inspired him to write: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us” (v. 37).