Theme For Daily Devotionals By David Jeremiah November 19 2021 – They’re With Me
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
Romans 8:37
Recommended Reading: 1 John 5:4-5
Maybe it happens more in the movies than in our own lives, but it does happen. Someone important approaches the entrance to a restricted area where he is recognized and waved through. But the people with him are not recognized and are denied entrance. When the “celebrity” sees the problem, he turns and says, “It’s okay; they’re with me.” Suddenly the whole group is waved through. Knowing the right person has its advantages.
When Paul writes about hardships not being able to separate us from the love of God in Christ (Romans 8:35-39), he says we can overcome them because “we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us”—meaning Christ. He may have been thinking of Jesus’ words: “In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33, NIV). It’s as if you and I are with Jesus when we suddenly encounter some trouble. Trouble waves Jesus past, but then He says to trouble—gesturing at us—“It’s okay; they’re with Me.”
Jesus has overcome the troubles of this world. If you are in Him, you have overcome them as well.
The Christian faith is not a way to explain, endure or enjoy this world, so much as to overcome it.
Vance Havner
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