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"In all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us" - Romans 8:37
Paul was speaking here of the things that might seem likely to separate a saint
from the love of God. But the remarkable thing is that nothing can come between
the love of God and a saint. The things Paul mentioned in this passage can and
do disrupt the close fellowship of our soul with God and separate our natural
life from Him. But none of them is able to come between the love of God and the
soul of a saint on the spiritual level. The underlying foundation of the
Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was
exhibited on the Cross of Calvary; a love that is not earned and can never be.
Paul said this is the reason that "in all these things we are more than
conquerors." We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the
very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.
Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill
for the surfer who has ridden them. Let’s apply that to our own circumstances.
The things we try to avoid and fight against— tribulation, suffering, and
persecution— are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. "We are more
than conquerors through Him" "in all these things"; not in spite of them, but in
the midst of them. A saint doesn’t know the joy of the Lord in spite of
tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, "I am exceedingly joyful in all our
tribulation" (2 Corinthians 7:4 ).
The undiminished radiance, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on
anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can change. And the
experiences of life, whether they are everyday events or terrifying ones, are
powerless to "separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord" ( Romans 8:39 ).
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