We are more than conquerers

It is true when everything in life is hunky-dory, we tend to think life is fun and easy. 

But when things begin to go wrong and even crash and burn, this life can become completely overwhelming.

Praise God!  for we have a real hope in Him! 

There is no condemnation for those who are in Jesus.  He has set us free from the law of sin and death.  He became the requirement of the Law for us.  We have had a deliverance from the bondage in which we were born. 

We could have been in that bondage, even when our lives seemed like it was hunky-dory, if we were not saved by His grace at that time.   But now set free, we are no longer under the obligation to be a slave to the sin that once ran us.  We can overcome sin because of the Holy Spirit who lives within us and leads us.

When life becomes overwhelming we must remember our HOPE in the One who raises the dead.  None of what is happening here on this fallen earth compares with the glory which will be revealed to us when we are with the LORD.  We have been saved in the hope which we can not see, but we know it exists and we eagerly await it.

How can we respond when life crashes and burns?   The Holy Spirit knows our inner most being and intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.  What a comfort!  I do not have to try to figure out what to say!  Even if I cannot verbalize, "Abba Father!" it is already in the Father's ear.

What a victory we have in our grasp!  Not one earthly thing, not even the evil one can take this away from us! 

God works.  He is working always.  He is not too busy and certainly not forgetful.  He is on our side because we are His adopted children because of Jesus' death and resurrection. For those who are His children, He works all our things together for good and so we can trust Him even when we do not understand the "why".

No matter what overwhelms us in our lives; tribulations, distresses, persecutions, famines, nakedness, peril, sword....God is for us so who can be against us?  He is working.  We can trust Him.

Romans 8:37-39
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
through Him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers,

nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So with this knowledge we can find comfort as we are more than conquerers!  We can get up and do next things for Him.  Our whole being should be in a desire to glorify His name.  In our everyday world, whatever that looks like, we can live fully for Him even if our lives are overwhelming with struggles.

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