Thought for Tuesday, February 19th

February 19, 2013

The Ability to Overcome

Do you ever feel so far down: you feel there is no way up?

   What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?  As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.  Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Romans 8:31-37

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

-       Helen Keller

God never promised a world without trials, turmoil, pain and even some degree of suffering: but He did promise to always be with us through it all and He also promised to give us the grace and the strength we need to face whatever might come our way.

Often we want to know why this occurred or why that was allowed to happen: when more often than not we just need to praise God from whom all blessings flow and trust that if He lead us to an experience: there must be a purpose and there is always a benefit.

Sometimes the events, of our life, are the effect of choices we have made and decision we chose to make: hence they are sometimes the consequences of our own making: yet even then God’s grace is sufficient and His mercy will carry us through.

The reality of our reality is often more strongly affected by our attitude about that reality than it is by the circumstances that comprise it.

If we grasp the realization that even at our worst moment; we are still victorious, blessed beyond measure and have more hope and a brighter future than we could ever hope to accurately imagine – we might be less gloom and doom and more praise and thanksgiving.

No one really enjoys the hard times of life: but if we understand who we are in Christ and the role He should be playing in our life: we might begin to realize nothing is really ever as bad as it seems and no matter where we may be in our life; we always have the assurance that it is only going to get better as we draw closer to seeing Him face to face.

The truth of the matter is simply this: we all have the ability to overcome – the question then is this:  are we willing to avail ourselves of His promises and trust in His truths and allow His overcoming power to be activated within us?

Today’s Prayer

Father, don’t ever let me forget that I am more than a conqueror and I can always overcome any situation or circumstance with You in control of my life.