{"id":474363,"date":"2025-03-07T02:10:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.com\/?p=474363"},"modified":"2025-03-07T02:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:40:56","slug":"undaunted-radiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/undaunted-radiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Undaunted Radiance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fb3b1b5e387a82b4bdbed5652a308115 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. \u2014 Romans 8:37<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In all these things . . .\u201d Paul is speaking here of things that might seem likely to separate the sanctified soul from the love of God. But the remarkable thing is that nothing can separate the two. Certain things can and do come between God and our devotional practices or private life with him. But nothing can separate the sanctified soul from his love. The bedrock of Christian faith is the unearned, fathomless marvel of the love of God displayed on the cross, a love we never can and never will deserve. Paul says that this is the reason we are \u201cmore than conquerors through him who loved us.\u201d We are super-victors through Christ, and the joy we take in this fact is directly related to the magnitude of the challenges we face. The wave that distresses the new swimmer gives the seasoned surfer the extreme joy of riding clean through it. For the sanctified soul, tribulation, distress, and persecution are not things to fight or fear or avoid: they are sources of jubilation. In them, we are more than conquerors through Christ\u2014not in spite of them but in the middle of them. If certain things didn \u2019t seem likely to overwhelm us, we wouldn\u2019t fully appreciate Christ \u2019s victory. We know the joy of the Lord not in spite of hardship but because of it. \u201cIn all our troubles my joy knows no bounds,\u201d Paul says (2 Corinthians 7:4). Undaunted radiance is not built on anything passing. It is built on the love of God, which nothing can alter. The experiences of life, however terrible or monotonous, are powerless to touch it.<br>By Oswald Chambers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. \u2014 Romans 8:37 In all these things . . .\u201d Paul is speaking here of things that might seem likely to separate the sanctified soul from the love of God. But the remarkable thing is that nothing can separate the two. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-daily-devotion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}