Cheers To You, Friend!

When life seems the darkest it is always good to reflect on some helpful words from God's word. I like to turn to Romans 8: 35-39 which says, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Why, in the midst of troubles do we think that God isn't with us? Didn't Jesus say in John 16:33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." Jesus overcame the world and as we rest in and rely upon him, we too shall overcome the world. He does it in and through us. This is cause to be of good cheer. Cheers to you, friend!