More Than Conquerors (Romans 8 Part 2)

The Gospel shines its brightest when it helps us navigate the darkness. God loves us, calls us and purposes us. We aren't God's trophies - we're created to be participants. So what does it mean to be 'more than conquerors'? It's easy to see what defeat is and it's easy to see what victory is. But being 'more than conquerors' doesn't mean just making it through and surviving. Reacting to a situation is the lowest form of engagement. A step above that would be responding. But more than conquering means being led somewhere that we would not have gone by default. Just conquering would mean bending something to our will, but being more than conquerors means bending a situation to a will and a purpose that is beyond ourselves.