Excess of Life
Kristyn Komarnicki
Editor, Christ & Culture, PRISM Magazine

... An elderly couple is mugged on the street. A single mother is evicted. A young man is paralyzed in an accident. An infant is born lifeless. People daily suffer the indignities of war, poverty, crime, and disease. Focusing on these realities, we quickly and quite naturally descend into despair. But when we do, we are guilty of selective hearing. For sin, suffering, and death are only part of the story.

The other part of the story is Christ’s love for us, a love that is boundless, inescapable, omnipotent, and transforming. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” Paul asks in Romans 8:35. No, he affirms, “neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Now there’s a concept that should have us leaping out of bed every morning! (If you’d like to read more, click here).