More than a conqueror

"What, then, shall we say in response to this?  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 is he that condemns?  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?  NO, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us."  Romans 8: 31-35, 37

That is what I want to be...more than a conqueror!  I seem to be running into little things that discourage me.  Like the crack in the sidewalk that trips me when I run, these small distractions can lay me out flat and leave me scraped up and bleeding.  I've learned to watch the sidewalk and step over the cracks.  I'm also working on falling so that I can get back up quickly with minimal damage.  Why is it that the "cracks" in my life seem so much bigger than the ones in the sidewalk?  Why are they harder for me to avoid?

I get caught up in the comparison game in all parts of my life.  I am my own worst critic and I have spent much of my life scrutinizing and criticizing myself.  I am always found lacking in my own mind.  What I can do is never good enough.  No wonder I feel defeated!  Just writing those words depresses me!

Enough of my own thinking...time for the TRUTH!  If God is for ME, who can be against me?  God gave Jesus for ME and He justifies ME.  Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father interceding for ME.  Can anything (including my own shortcomings and beliefs about myself) separate me from Jesus' love for ME?  Nope!  I am more than a conqueror because God loves ME!  It is time to let those truths sink deep into my heart and live as more than a conqueror!