What is the “love” that Paul talks about in Romans 8:35.
The Greek word for “love” or agape in this part of the verse means affection, but also benevolence, a love-feast or feast of charity.
Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary says “love” is “…the identification of believers with God in character [and that] Christian love, whether exercised toward the brethren, or toward men generally, is not an impulse from the feelings, it does not always run with the natural inclinations, nor does it spend itself only upon those for whom some affinity is discovered.”
So the love from the depth of Christ keeps us bound to His image, and to His Way. His love, and His image, shows us our lifestyle in all that we do even in our mistakes and shortcomings. Our trials which can make us fall, Jesus sees and loves us anyway as we go through our process of learning this “love” of Christ.
Thanks be to God!
God Bless You All!
Brenda A. McGee has attended New York Theological Seminary in New York, NY, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA as a Master of Divinity student.