More than Conquerors

Sitting in worship this morning, there was no denying that the Holy Spirit was present. One of the opening songs was Healing in Your Hands. A beautiful song that brought new meaning to my heart. The chorus: 

How high, how wide

No matter where I am, healing is in Your hands
How deep, How strong

And now by Your grace I stand, healing is in Your hands

Sitting in room 612, holding sweet Harrison in my hands, tears fell from my eyes onto his tiny, little, perfect body as my heart broke over and over because I could not do anything to help him, to save him, to bring him back. It took hours to sink in that we could do nothing (and I still have daily thoughts and wonders race through my mind if something could have been done). All we could do was raise our hands up and through our quiet prayers offer our Harrison to the Lord, to place him in the Lord's healing hands. It's in the same healing hands that I find myself each day as I wake, pleading with the Lord to hold me, to carry me, to stay by my side one day more.

Verse:

In all things, we know that.
We are more than conquerors.
You keep us by your love.
You keep us by your love. 

More than conquerors......a conqueror? Conqueror is not one of the words I would use to describe myself right now. This song is based on pretty much all of Romans 8, but particularly verses 37-39 where Paul paints a beautiful picture of his belief that absolutely NOTHING can separate us from God's love. WOW! When you back up and start reading in verse 18, Paul very blatantly talks about the relationship between our current sufferings and future glory, and says there is no comparison at all. Creation, from the beginning was "subject to frustration" from the creator's will. But in the future, He will free us from the frustration and bring us into freedom...and that is where, as Christians, our HOPE is born. So when we read down to verses 31-39 Paul speaks from his heart in sharing with us all that if God loves us so much that He would sacrifice His son, then there is no way He would let anything come between His love and ourselves. Sweet love! A sweet love that holds us close, that creates in us conquerors so ... "... in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us." Romans 8:37. No, I am not a conqueror. But, yes, the Lord can create in me a conqueror through His sweet, sweet love!