Nearly everyone is familiar with the adage, “I’ve got some good news and some bad news,” and that is certainly applicable in Deuteronomy 7:9, 10:
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face” (ESV).
In the big picture, the good news is that God is faithful and merciful to those who love Him. The bad news is that He is faithful to destroy to those who hate Him.
Yet, for the believer the news is all good: The Lord is faithful and always does what He says, full of grace and steadfast love, and He will ultimately demolish His (and thus our) enemy.
In this passage Moses emphatically says to “know this.”
Paul said it this way concerning God’s love:
“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 our Lord” (Romans 8:38, 39 KJV).
When the Apostle writes that he is persuaded it means he has an unwavering certainty of God’s love.
Death can’t separate His love; rather, it moves the believer from faith to sight.
Life’s trials can’t separate His love from us because He knows just how we feel.
The spirit world can’t separate His love from us because He is far above all principality and power.
What is happening right now in our lives—things present—can’t detach His love from us, neither will things to come, since He always provides a way of escape.
Nothing high, nothing low, nothing created has the power to separate God’s love from you because His love to you is in Christ Jesus. And He has all power.
John stated in his first letter, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us…” (1 John 3:1). Manner means “from what country or race; then, of what sort of quality. It is used of the quality of both persons and things” (Vincent). There is no “quality” better than Jesus Christ and He has been given completely (bestowed) to you!
