It's easy in this life to find ourselves getting down and discouraged. If that's where you find yourself today, consider Paul's words in Romans 8:
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Now before we start feeling our individualist All-American, pick-myself-up-by-the-bootstraps pep talk coming on, we first notice this is something WE have, not I have. And, context is everything. This very powerful promise is part of the paragraph that begins:
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Who was against them? It was not simply a bad hair day or a "my hip is acting up day." They were facing things like:
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword.
They were facing severe treatment leading to fear, discouragement, and considering bailing ship. Paul says: There's no need for that. Remember who we are. Remember we are in this together. Remember Who loves us and empowers us. Stand firm together in Him.
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