More than Conquerers!
Uber conquistadores.
Over-and-above championship.
Super-winners.
Victorious and then some.
My sweet Savior is all of these things and more. He has so graciously and lovingly taught me about his over-abounding Grace and Kingship.
He has taught me about his love.
He has taught me.
My sweet Savior has shown me what love is. To show someone something you don't just say the word, "Yay!" You show them how excited and "yay" you are by how you show them and how you say it. It means nothing if we fail to say it with enthusiasm. "Yay" would be just another random, perhaps mispelled Olde-English vocabulary word.
The Lord didn't just prophesy that He would send His Son.
Nope.
He didn't leave it at the miracles and the amazing ministry here on Earth.
Uh-uh.
He send His Song, His ONLY Son, to Die.
On a Cross.
He sufferred a lot.
He bled and died.
Ouch.
The Lord really loves.
He doesn't just tell us he loves us.
He shows us.
What a powerful example of of love.
I can't think of anything that can compare.
And then, as if that isn't enough, he so faithfully pursues us.
He knows our hearts, he knows our dreams, wants and needs.
Afterall he did create them.
Romans 8:31-39
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He 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? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."[l] 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[m] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
posted by bekah at
8:08 PM
1 Comments:
I love the picture, Bekah.
And the post is awesome too.
Praise the Lord for what He has done.
You know, I went to what is called a Life Group (similar to LH's Hope Groups) on Wednesday and we looked at 2 Peter 1:3-8, but I read down to nine in my personal time.
"3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins."
The part that got me was that if we don't add these things in increasing measure, if we allow this to make us weak and ineffective, then we've forgotten what it was that Jesus did for us. I was humbled. I'm glad you've spent some time remembering.
Joshua
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