The world often expects suffering. We may hear from friends, from the media, and even whispered within our own thoughts, all sorts of predictions of anguish—on the way and arriving soon.

Could it be that many such predictions sprout from unfamiliarity with God’s all-good nature and power? There is a Christian basis for considering such forbidding forecasts to be false prophecies. In the Bible, Paul, one of the early Christians, said, “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).

How encouraging it is to recognize that “things to come,” no matter how threatening they may appear, have no ability to separate us from God or His love. What is the basis for this comforting fact? The foundation of our inseparability from God’s love is God’s creative authority, which denies that a “big bang” or any other physical event or process produced a world of sentient beings, including you and me. The true creation is God’s, Spirit’s, expression of Himself. This expression of God that has resulted in all of us is an eternal truth that gives us a timeless basis for fearless immortality.