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Snippets: Who Shall Separate Us From the Love of Christ?

I offer my poetic paraphrase and expansion of Romans 8:35-39:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
 
Fiery trials may come, the walls around us crush us in,
But he is in the fire, and provides our sweet support.
We may have no bread, and be stripped of all our clothes,
But he is the bread of life, and robes us in his righteousness.
We may be on the edge of death, the sword pointed in our back,
But he has dulled the edge, our shield has taken the blow.
We may be led as sheep to the slaughter,
But as the Lamb is a Lion, so we conquer.

For his love and power prevail,
And his love is set on us.

For the Word and experience has proved
That death is gain,
That to live is Christ,
That demons bow,
That potentates hold no sway,
That dynamite is weak,
That He is Lord of the present,
And will be ever so,

That no god in the heavens,
Or demon in hell,
Nor anything on the earth,
Can separate us from the love of God in Christ our Lord.

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