No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Our outstanding joy, eternal hope, and unassailable victory is in Christ Jesus our Lord. With this in mind, after cataloging a fearsome list of the most traumatic circumstances that may impact our lives or afflict us in the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms, and having proclaimed that nothing can separate us from Christ’s love (including tribulation and distress, famine and nakedness, peril, persecution, and death), Paul emphatically declares that we are conquerors in every single situation that crosses our path, in time and into eternity. It is through Christ Jesus our Lord that we are saved, and it is in Him that we are overwhelming winners and irrepressible victors. No matter what sufferings and difficulties we may face, our Heavenly Savior is able to work everything together for our eternal good and for His greater glory, and He does this because of His great love for each one of us. We do not crawl out of our difficulties and distresses bloodied and bruised. We emerge from every situation triumphantly, victorious through Him Who loved us and gave Himself for us. Should this truth not rejoice our hearts? Should this promise not comfort our soul? Should we not praise His wonderful name for all His overflowing blessings of love and the immeasurable depths of grace he has poured up upon us? What Paul is presenting here is the conclusion and climax of the life that is hidden with Christ in God. The end, the epilogue, and the entirety of a life that is saved by grace and secured in Christ, is a victorious life, an overwhelmingly victorious life in spite of all the tears, troubles, and trials that stalk our pathway. How often are we enjoined to abide in Christ, to rest in Him, and remain in Him! And once again we are reminded that when faith is founded on this One, sure Foundation, nothing can destroy our hope or disrupt our fellowship with the Lover of our soul. For when we remain in Christ and He in us, we become irrepressible conquerors and overwhelming victors. This is a godly principle of faith…that when we abide in Christ during the inevitable disasters that flood our lives…faith increases, trust is amplified, hope is expanded, and our love of Jesus reaches even greater heights. Oh, such life victory has nothing to do with our own great strength, intellectual ability, or healthy bank balance, for of ourselves we would be overwhelmed by all these things rather than becoming a conqueror through Christ. We must remember that we are overwhelming victors ‘now’. Not only will we become victorious in the future but also today, for He has promised that in ‘all’ these things we are ‘more’ than conquerors through Him that loved us. Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world…and we are in Christ and Christ is in God. Let us believe His Word which states: “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him, that loved us.” Let us live our lives in the expectation that we will not only overcome in the future but that we are already victorious now…through Him Who loved us.
Spiritual Steve 