Devotion

At church Wednesday night, a woman in our bible study class asked us to pray for an colleague. Her 4 month old little girl recently died of SIDS. She and her husband are now considering divorce because they can't move past the tragic death of their daughter. They don't understand why God would allow this to happen. Our bible study teacher immediately responded, "Romans 8." I came home that night and read Romans 8, and it is such a great answer during times in our life when we can't understand the aftermath of tragedy.
~Mommy M

Romans 8:35-39
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.