More Than Conquerors

Romans 8:31-39

  What, then, shall we say in response to these things?  If God is for us,  who can be against us?    He 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?   Who will bring any charge  against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.   Who then is the one who condemns?  No one. 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.    Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?    As it is written:

  “For your sake we face death all day long;

 we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 

     No, in all these things we are more than conquerors  through him who loved us.    For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,  nor any powers,    neither 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.

Thoughts 

. Whatever sort of tribulation we suffer, we should always remember that its purpose is to make us spurn the present and reach out to the future. - John Calvin

. Philosophers, then, are children, unless they have been made men by Christ.

that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Clement of Alexandria

Blamelessness

. Blamelessness of Heart

1 Thessalonians 3:13

May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless  and holy in the presence of our God and Father  when our Lord Jesus comes  with all his holy ones.

.  Blamelessness of Life

1 Thessalonians 2:10

You are witnesses,  and so is God,  of how holy,  righteous and blameless we were among you who believed.

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