so this is what it means

Emphasis mine.

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From F.B. Meyer (1847 - 1929)

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

The only matter about which the Apostle felt any anxiety was whether anything could cut him off from the living, loving Lord. Taking the extreme conditions, he carefully examines them, knowing that they include all in between. First he interrogates the extremes of existence, death and life; the extremes of created intelligences, angels and principalities and powers; the extremes of time, things present and things to come; the extremes of space, height and depth; lastly, the extremes of the created universe, any other creature. Each of these extremes thus passed in review, and he has eagerly peered into its depths. He is like a man proving every link of the chain on which he is going to swing out over the abyss. Carefully and fervently he has tested all, and is satisfied that none of them can cut him off from the love of God.

We strangely misjudge the love of God. We think that our distresses and sufferings, our sins and failures, may make Him love us less, whereas they will draw Him nearer, and make His love exert itself more evidently and tenderly. Oh, blessed love that comes down to us from the heart of Jesus, the essence of the eternal love of God dwelling there and coming through Jesus to us - nothing can staunch, nothing exhaust, nothing intercept it!

It will not let us go. It leaps the gulf of space untenanted, it bridges time unexhausted. It does not depend on our reciprocation or response. It is not our love that holds God, but God's that hold us. Not our love to Him, but His to us. And since nothing can separate us from the love of God, He will go on loving us for ever, and pouring into us the entire fullness of His life and glory.


[Nothing]... shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39)