CWW Week 19 - Day 3 - Who Are You?
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Scripture.
Romans 8:37
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”
Devotional
This verse reassures us that, despite challenges and difficulties, we are not just conquerors but “more than conquerors” through the love of Christ. It highlights the overwhelming victory and strength that comes from being in Christ, who empowers and loves us.
As we explore this weeks contemplation, many of us will be realising that our own views on who we are may not be all that flattering. Some will be saying that “you can’t make a silk purse from a sows ear.” No you can’t but God can. God made us to His specifications and He does not make junk.
As we look back on the events or personalities in our lives that helped us to form our sub conscious bottom line belief about ourselves, we need to do so through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. We must pray for Him to give us a clear view of those things that altered our course.
When we do so by giving Him full permission to help us conduct a ruthless moral inventory of our lives, a great many things can change for the best and the dragons of our past can be slain in God’s infinite power.
This makes us more than conquerers. It makes us Friends Of God.
It takes courage to take that kind of look at yourself, but think of it this way. Do you think God is unaware of our shortcomings or wrong turns? What do we have left to lose by examining ourselves in such a way?
When I came to Jesus I felt truly unworthy. Why on earth would Christ give me the time of day? I had blotted my copy book and established my self as someone who could not be trusted. It took me six months of contemplation and reading to understand that someone I had never met, two thousand years ago, died the worst death imaginable to give a wretched sinner like me a second chance.
Once I had squared that away, I needed to know how someone who was loved that much could get it all so skewed. I asked Jesus to help me understand. It was then that the Holy Spirit took me on a personal guided tour of my past. He showed me every intersection where I took the wrong turn. Then He showed me why I made that decision and the effects those choices had on my future outcomes.
I could see clearly how things got so messed up. Then he helped me see that these were reasons and not excuses. I got to understand that I had spent most of my life making excuses based on my past. How often do we blame things of the past for our unwillingness to change?
Having left school at age thirteen with no real formal education other than the basics, my belief system had me also believing that I was dumb an incapable of making anything of myself. When I think back on all the doors that God opened for me that I refused to go through, it staggers me.
I wish I knew about Philippians 4:13 in the New Testament.”I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” I needed His strength back then to believe in who He had created me to be and not what my subconscious told me.
But as I said before. Jesus designed us and is prepared every day to redraw the blueprint around every mistake we make, to get us to the destination….if we allow Him to do so.
It’s time to believe what He tells us we are, and not what the enemy of souls tells us. For him failure is a victory and we pay the price; but Jesus has already paid the price for our wrong turns and all fines are now marked void. All we have to do is acknowledge Jesu as our one true saviour.
Does it get any better than that?
Questions.
- Have your past mistakes put the brakes on your God given journey?
- Have you given more control to the enemy than he deserves?
- Are you looking forward to being “more than a conquerer?”
Prayer
Dear Lord, Papa God.
I want the destiny that You want for my life. I want Your will to be my greatest desire. Papa the enemy has programmed me so well, that I am beyond reprogramming without You in my life. So I pray, as I honestly look at my life, that you will make me more than a conqueror. In Jesus name. Amen.
Have a great day with Jesus.
Graham Hood.
