Like Grabbing the Trophy

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us."-Romans 8:37

Imagine your favorite team winning the championship in their respective sport. The game is, over and the crowd roaring. The captain lifts that massive trophy above his head for everyone to see. Now imagine yourself, a lone fan, sprinting down onto the field, court, or rink, tapping that dude on the shoulder and asking if maybe you could also lift that trophy up and then afterward take it home with you and keep it in your room for the rest of your life so that you could show everyone you know and gaze at it every morning when you wake up. Wouldn't that be pretty strange? You didn't do anything to deserve that victory, so why would you get to relish so directly in it?

Come on brothers and sisters, Jesus paid for the victory and now he invites us to boast in it and directly reap all of the life-changing benefits of his work on the cross. Imagine him calling you out of the crowd from his triumphal seat on the throne, sitting victorious over death and Satan, offering to celebrate the victory with him and tell everyone you know about it! Do we gaze at the splendor of victory through Jesus every morning when we wake up?   

Mysterious Friend

"that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of the understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ" -Colossians 2:2 

Full assurance and some unrevealed mystery, don't we all desire that in a relationship? We have the ultimate security in Jesus, he will NEVER walk out or prove untrustworthy. Life with him is exciting, as he is continually revealing himself and his plan for our lives to us in his perfect timing.