God does not keep a man immune from trouble; He says - "I will be with him in trouble". It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man's life, not one of them can separate him from his relationship to God. We are "more than conquerors in all these things". Paul is not talking of imaginary things, but of things that are desperately actual; and he says we are super-victors in the midst of them, not by our ingenuity, or by our courage, or by anything other than the fact that not one of them affects our relationship to God in Jesus Christ. Rightly or wrongly, we are where we are, exactly in the condition we are in. I am sorry for the Christian who has not something in his circumstances he wishes was not there. "Shall tribulation...?" Let tribulation be what it may - exhausting, galling, it is not able to separate us from the love of God. Never let cares or tribulations separate you rom the fact that God loves you. ...
