Qualified
Romans 8:36-37 MKJV
(36) As it is written, “For Your sake we are killed all the day long. We are counted as sheep of slaughter.”
(37) But in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us.
Till there is a ‘thing’ and until there is a trial, there is nothing to conquer, nothing to be victorious over. While for some the attack or the difficulty may bring cause for depression and defeat, for the conqueror and for the winner it is only another foe to be overcome and another reason to be glad. Instead of worry and concern, there is inspiration and excitement about the coming victory celebration. This perception of imminent triumph is actually what enables the stance necessary for the conquest. Until there is an expectation of victory there can be no advance and no domination of the enemy no matter how great the potential and how small the foe.
With each attack and through each conflict there is actually a qualification taking place for the one that chooses to remain on the side of the Victor. Though David could have reacted to the attacks of the bear and the lion as some kind of judgment or bad fortune, He instead responded with the victorious nature that had come on him from long nights spent with his Maker and his God. His choice of trust in God through those smaller attacks caused him to be uniquely qualified to stand before the giant Goliath. There was, for him, an incredible confidence instilled by the attacks he had already experienced that enabled and qualified him to stand before the ‘invincible’ adversary with full confidence and excitement about what was about to talk place by the hand of his God.
It may seem that according to circumstances we’re being put through an inordinate amount of life difficulty. It may seem that things are unfair, that we’ve been wrongly dealt bad experiences. For all those, however, who choose to put their trust and their hope in God, no matter how much they’ve messed up or chosen wrongly, there is an incredible reason to be glad and rejoice. God will take everything that our enemy has used for evil in our lives and turn it to His glory. We’ll indeed more than conquer through Him!
