THE OBJECT OF VICTORY

 

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. (Romans 8:37 NKJV)

 Can anything separate me from the love of Christ, was the only question that the Apostle Paul felt worth consideration. In this paragraph he takes the extreme conditions of being, and carefully investigates them, knowing that they include all between. First, he ask questions about our existence, "death and life"; next, created intelligences, "angels, principalities, and powers"; next, the extremes of time, "things present, things to come"; next, of space, "height and depth"; lastly, the created universe, "any other creature." Each of these extremes is passed in review. He is like a man proving every link of the chain in which he is going to swing out over the abyss. Carefully and fervently he has tested all, and is satisfied that none of them can cut him off from the love of God.

We strangely misjudge and mistrust the love of God our Father, and think that our distresses and sufferings, our sins and failures, may make Him love us less. But in the home, it is not the number of children that engrosses the mother's care so much as the puny and feeble life, that lies in the crib, unable to help itself and reciprocate her love. And in the world, death and pain, disease and sorrow, sin and failure, so far from separating us from God's love, bind us closer.

What blessed love comes down to us from the heart of Jesus, the essence of the eternal love of God.  Nothing can ever staunch, exhaust or intercept it. It is not our love to Him, but His to us, and since nothing can separate us from the love of God, He will go on loving us for ever, and pouring into us the entire fullness of His life and glory. Whatever our difficulties, whatever our weakness and infirmity, we shall be kept steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; gaining by our losses, succeeding by our failures, triumphing in our defeats, and ever more than conquerors through Him that loved us.  His love is the object of our victory.

PRAYER

Through life, through sorrow and through sinning He is all sufficient for me, for He has always been sufficient: Christ is the end, for Christ was the beginning, Christ is the beginning, for the end is Christ.  Help me always to remember this.  I pray it in His Name, Amen.

God's Daily Promise

Promise #273:
I have the ability to do all that I have promised.

Romans 4:20-21 (WEB)
20 Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief,
but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,
21 and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.