This is Paul's message to suffering believers. It should be our message to anyone suffering in this life. If God is for us, nothing and no one can be against us. We may have people who hate us and persecute us. But try their worst, they cannot keep us from the glory that God will reveal to us and in us. And so, God will graciously give us all things. Christ Jesus, the Son, is interceding for us. What have we to worry about? Whom do we have to fear?

Christians many times feel like they are sheep being led to the slaughter. They experience trouble, hardship, persecution, famine, nakedness, danger and sometimes even the sword. But Christians can be assured that none of this can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. No power on earth or in heaven, neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, nothing in all God's creation can separate us from the deep and abiding love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. To this, all we can say is "Wow! God really loves me!"


Application: Father, thank you the deep and abiding love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. For in this love, we are more than conquerors.
One Word: We are more than conquerors because of the love of God in Christ Jesus