I once talked with a young man who had fought a serious alcohol problem in his life for years. He had at one point almost ruined his own life and the lives of the members of his family. As we talked the thought struck me, “If you removed just one thing from that boy’s life—alcohol—his life would have been entirely different.” When I shared that with him he quickly agreed. Think of that, “Just one thing and everything would be different.”
That’s the way it has been with my life. Subtract God from my life and it would be altogether different in a worse way.
The best thing of all is that my salvation is something that can never be taken away from me. The scriptures declare that nothing can separate us from Christ. No tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword can separate us. Paul puts it this way: “For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus the Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).
These things may separate us from health and wealth, from family and friends, and from comfort and ease, but they can never separate us from God.