more than

well it is late. i have a headache. cant sleep. and i just figured out that you can have a top 24. that is neat. something that i have been pondering and speaking on this week is the concept that we are more than conquerors through the love and power of Jesus Christ. this still boggles my mind. if paul would have said that we were just conquerors i think that i could have understood it better but he says more than, this means that we are more than capable of overcoming any obstacle in our way when we let the power of Jesus Christ rule our lives. wow. this power that conquered death and hell itself is available to us who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and love him and obey him. this info really comes in handy when you have no money, friends, hope, or peace. when your parents wont quit fighting or when you do not think that your spouse is being faithful. it is handy when the world around us seems so chaotic, wars and famine, corrupt politicians, and it seems like there is no end in sight. now because we are conquerors it does not mean that things are going to be easy, there is going to be turmoil. there are going to be trials, but we all possess the power to make it through victoriously through our relationship with Jesus. now i listened to a sermon this week that got me thinking about this even more, and my boy mark driscoll was preaching on how Jesus was fully man and fully God and yet did not rely on his deity to sustain him on the earth rather he used this power that paul refers to in romans 8:37, and through the abscence of sin and the unity with the Holy Spirit he was able and willing to do all of the things that he did here on earth without relying on his powers of deity. this is the doctrine of Christus Exemplar or Christ the Example. now i am not saying that i understand all of this but i am trying to wrap my feeble mind around it and understand the power that i possess as a follower of Christ. i am more than a conqueror. i can face what comes my way. through obedience to Jesus out of love and devotion and a union with the Holy Spirit, i can face life and its problems, big and small. Jesus was my example and endured what we have to endure. there is nothing that he has not gone through that we are faced with. i hope that i can cling to this promise. hope you have some thoughts
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jj