Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37)
Paul was speaking here of the things that might seem likely to separate us from the love of God. But the amazing thing is that nothing can come between the love of God and a true Christian saint.
The things Paul mentioned in this passage can and do disrupt the close fellowship of our being with God and separate our natural life from Him. But none of them is able to come between the love of God and the inner soul of a saint on the spiritual level.
The underlying foundation of the Christian faith is the undeserved, limitless miracle of the love of God that was displayed on the Cross of Calvary; a love that cannot be earned and can never be. It is a free gift of God.
Paul said this is the reason that “in all these things we are more than conquerors.” We are given super-victories with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overcome and conquer us.
Huge crashing waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer, can produce a tremendous thrill for the tried surfer who has ridden through them. Let’s apply that theory to our own Christian walk. The things we try to avoid and fight against, tribulations, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that can be reversed to produce abundant joy in us.
“We are more than conquerors through Him” “in all these things”; not in spite of them, but because of them. A Christian saint doesn’t know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it.
Paul said, “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4).
The undeniable radiance that beams from our appearances, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anything passing, but on the love of God that nothing can ever change.
And the experiences of life, whether they are happy events or terrifying experiences, are powerless to “separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39).
Because “In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” Find your source today.
Ia manuia,
failauga p. anoa'i
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