Look at your shoes. Are you wearing Nike kicks? The word Nike comes from the Greek word nikeo, meaning “to overcome,” or “I overcome.” When the shoe company says “Just do it!” they are encouraging us to overcome any obstacle to fitness (like sitting around and doing nothing!) An overcomer is a conqueror — which is our word for the day.

Conquerors are people who have overcome a huge obstacle. They can look back at the experience and say, “Yes, we’ve made it!” They also continue to walk in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. The wall in front of them seems too tall, but they can draw from those past experiences and say that they’ve been there before.

So it is with us and God. He is The Conqueror. Jesus has defeated (conquered) all His enemies, and so there is no reason to doubt whether He’ll be victorious in the future.

Our passage today is Romans 8:34-37. It’s an awesome reminder of the victory that is in Jesus alone.

³⁴Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” ³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

• Think on this: Through what power are we conquerors? Why?
  

We are victorious because of Christ’s love. It is the strongest force in the universe.

• Since we live and breath from victory (not from failure), how does that change how you think and feel about your problems today?