If you are a Christian you are ‘more than a conqueror through him who loved us’ (Rom. 8:37). More than a conqueror? Me? Yes, you. This is not true only of seasoned, mature, particularly holy Christians – it is true of all Christians, whether you feel it to be true or not.

One of the recurring struggles every Christian without exception has is the struggle to realise how astonishingly blessed it is to be a Christian. I would like to remind you (and myself) of the vast, inconceivable privilege it is to be a Christian.

A Christian is someone who has been called by ‘the God of all grace . . . to his eternal glory’ (1 Pet. 5:10). If you are a Christian, even a weak, faltering, young, struggling, up-one-day-down-the-next kind of Christian, this is true of you. God has called you, in Christ, to his eternal glory. Think on it.

More than that, a Christian is someone whom God has called ‘into the fellowship (communion) of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord’ (1 Cor. 1:9). By his effective call, God has brought you out ‘from the domain of darkness and transferred (you) to the kingdom of his beloved Son’ (Col. 1:13). This is true of you, if your trust before God is alone in his Son, Jesus Christ. Take time to think on that.

Even more, if you are a Christian nothing and no-one ‘in all creation, will be able to separate (you) from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord’ (Rom.8:39). In Christ, God has loved you with an everlasting love, with a love that will never fail you nor forsake you. It is a love sealed with the blood of Christ. God can no more stop loving you than he can stop loving his Son! Now that is something to stop and think about.

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