Romans 9:2-3 NLT

My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed - cut off from Christ! - if that would save them. 

Romans 9:2-3 NLT

We've just seen in Ch8 of Paul's letter that nothing can separate him from God's love, so what he is offering here can't really happen - it's like a saying, a metaphor, for wanting something so desperately, so intensively for his people, that he'd give his most treasured thing.

This is love.

And this is the love that Jesus did live out for us - gave up what was most precious for us.

And this is the love that saves us.

And it's the love we're invited to live out too...however sporadically and incomplete it might be, but to love others and want to see them follow Jesus too.

To know Him

And to be known

(Whether we feel it or not, know it or not, even believe it or not, we are, Beloved)

#letters

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