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.[…] 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).” CHAMBERS
In Romans 12 verse 2 Paul wrote that we are transformed. 2
Corinthians 5:17 he wrote that we are new in Christ, the old has passed
away. It no longer has claim to our
lives. In our Sunday school class the teacher
used the example of a caterpillar and a butterfly to describe what transformed
means. Once the process has started,
there is no way to reverse it. A butterfly
cannot become a caterpillar again. The transformation
requires patience and struggle. The cocoon
or chrysalis is a like the life that we live, we are enclosed in it, but inside
there is something going on that cannot be explained in natural terms. It is a mystery. An irreversible process. Once God has you in His hand, there is no one,
not even you, that can change that. (John 10:28-29) “I give them eternal
life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My
Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them
out of my Father’s hand.”
Our temptation is to lose
hope that life can be better.
Circumstances may not change but our lives in Christ are greater than
the circumstances we find ourselves in.
Loss, hurt, financial problems, broken relationships .. all of those
things come with a fallen world. We are
in that world, but as born again children of God, we are no longer limited by
this world. We have a supernatural
side. We have the capacity to live above
our circumstances … not struggle under them.
It all depends upon where you look for your source of strength. (Romans
8:31) “If God is for us, then who can be against us?” We are being transformed. The creator God is on our side. You can have joy in the midst of the
struggle. (Romans 8:38-39) “For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Can I get a Hallelujah from somebody?! ELGIN
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