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Devotions with Pastor Dick

10/27/2020

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Out of Overwhelming Challenges, I Rise

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?” Romans 8:35

God does not keep His child immune from trouble; He promises,

  • “I will be with him in trouble…” Psalm 91:15
It doesn’t matter how real or intense the adversities may be;
  • Nothing can ever separate him from his relationship to God.
  • “In all these things we are more than conquerors…”Romans 8:37
Paul was not referring here to imaginary things, but to things that are dangerously real.
And he said we are “super-victors”in the midst of them,
  • Not because of our own ingenuity,
  • Nor because of our courage,
  • But because none of themaffects our essential relationship with God in Jesus Christ.
I feel sorry for the Christian who doesn’t have something in the circumstances of his life that he wishes were not there.
“Shall tribulation…?”
  • Tribulation is never a grand, highly welcomed event; but whatever it may be— whether exhausting, irritating, or simply causing some weakness
  • It is not able to “separate us from the love of Christ.”
Never allow tribulations or the “cares of this world” to separate you from remembering that God loves you
“Shall…distress…?”
  • Can God’s love continue to hold fast, even when everyone and everything around us seems to be saying that His love is a lie, and that there is no such thing as justice?

“Shall…famine…?”
  • Can we not only believe in the love of God but also be “more than conquerors,”even while we are being starved?

Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver, having deceived even Paul, or else some extraordinary thing happens to someone who holds on to the love of God when the odds are totally against him.
  • Logic is silenced in the face of each of these things which come against him.
  • Only one thing can account for it— the love of God in Christ Jesus.
“Out of Overwhelming Challenges, I rise” every time.


Pastor Dick

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