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"In All These Things"
"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us" (Romans 8:37).
Yesterday
we attended a funeral for our friend Grady Carter, whom we came to know
when we served in an interim pastoral role in Spring Grove,
Pennsylvania two years ago. Grady was a very colorful fellow and an
avid sportsman. Following one of his successful hunting trips he gave
us a huge venison pot roast that barely fit in our dutch oven. We
still recall how tender the venison was and the flavorful juice that
made tasty gravy for our mashed potatoes.
In recent years
Grady had studied eternal truths with much more seriousness,
particularly as he fought cancer the last few months and the end was
growing near. He was a gun collector with an extensive knowledge of
firearms. One particular day he was taking inventory of his collection
and he quickly rattled off the model #'s and data unique to that
particular gun. His pastor was present and commented, "I'm really
impressed with your knowledge about guns." His response was, "I only
wish I knew as much about the Scriptures as I do about guns." I'm sure
many of us can identify with Grady's honesty in admitting that our
interest in temporal things often overrides our interest in spiritual
truths.
Pastor Higgins solemnly conducted the service and read
with great meaning from several pertinent verses of Scripture from
Romans 8. I was refreshed once again as I heard these Scriptures read
aloud. They gripped my heart and seemed especially appropriate for the
occasion.
Let's examine a timeless truth from God's Word today.
Paul is writing to the Roman believers about life through the Spirit in
the earlier part of chapter eight. Then he begins to consider the
difficulties and weaknesses that believers experience in this life, but
reminds us that God is working out everything for our good. Paul begins
to detail the adverse circumstances that a believer will likely endure
and then he suddenly comes to a crescendo in his thought. Capsulizing
the adverse circumstances in the phrase, "in all these things" he is
indicating anything that can go wrong in life.
Wondrously, however, in all these things "we are more than conquerors."
This translates the single Greek word "hupernikomen", which can only be
found here in the entire NT. It literally means we are
"hyper-overcomers" or "preeminently victorious". I found this
description so edifying as I studied this text. "Hupernikomen"
indicates that we are winning a most glorious victory; the kind of
victory that turns a negative into a positive. That which we may have
resented now gives us reason to rejoice!
This is accomplished "through Him who loved us." God's amazing love is the very foundation of this victory and Paul reveals the depth of His sacrificial love in 8:32, "He
who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He
not also, along with Him, graciously give us all things?" Paul repeats the phrase "all things"
three times in vv. 28-37 for added emphasis. It's a reminder that
there is no hardship we face, presently or in the future, that we can't
conquer, through our loving God who gives us "all things."
Hide
this truth deep in your heart. You may have struggles in this life,
but God's eternal Word declares that the ability to work through them
has already been taken care of. If there is a crisis you face this
hour, begin to personalize today's Scripture by declaring aloud, "I am more than a conqueror through Jesus who loves me."
Repeat it often so the troubling circumstances are no longer
captivating our minds, but God's Word is captiving our hearts and
minds. The circumstances of your crisis will ultimately surrender to
the victory Jesus has for you "inall these things."
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily Prayer:Father,
spiritual blessings come from You in the midst of Satan's attacks and
because of this essential truth we know that if You are for us, who can
be against us! There is no formidable foe that cannot be conquered as
the power of Your Holy Spirit enables us to remain faithful and ever
growing in our devotion to You. Remind us that as we share in Your
sufferings we also share in Your glory. In all areas of trouble,
hardship, persecution, famine, and danger we are more than conquerors
through You who loves us abundantly. Neither death nor life, neither
angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
nor anything else in all of Your creation will be able to separate us
from Your love that has been revealed to us through Your beloved Son,
Jesus Christ. We rejoice with our family of believers and we thank You
for the paths of abundance You lay out before us as we walk hand in
hand with You who helps us in all things. Amen.
Yesterday
we visited with Bob and Joan Snyder, who recently celebrated their 55th
wedding anniversary. They have an interesting distinction. They were
both born on the very same day in the very same hospital! In fact since
they don't know the time of their birth they don't know who is older.
A challenging puzzle - George Blizzard, a friend of ours recently sent us this word search puzzle.
Brooksyne and I have been working at it and still haven't finished. We
thought some of our daily encouragement readers might like to give it a
try!
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"Do Not Lose Heart"Audiofrom this site
We love hearing the Scriptures set to song and Brooksyne was singing
today's text. In searching for the specific song we were unable to
find it but did find this site. As she recalls it was by David and
Dale Garratt on "Scripture in Song" and we did not find the specific song.
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photo of the stairway in Charleston, SC is by Howard J. Blichfeldt and is used with
his permission. His website is here. Howard desires to honor the Lord through his
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