More Than Conquerors
Romans 8:31, 35, 37–39
NLT“What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?”
“Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?”
“No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
No external circumstance, suffering, or fear has power to sever your connection to divine source.
Paul concludes his theological exposition on suffering and salvation in Romans with an impassioned hymn of assurance, declaring that no worldly hardship, cosmic authority, temporal anxiety, or mortality itself has the power to sever humanity from divine love.
Light
Radical inner fortitude and serene assurance of belonging to eternal love through all tribulation.
Shadow
Triumphalist complacency that ignores the genuine pain of earthly trials.
