We can be totally confident in the love that God has for us. In the previous few verses Paul has dealt with things that fear might stop God loving us, saying, in short, that there is nothing that can. Now he turns to events that might takes us away from God's love. Again, the answer is that nothing can separate us from His love. Note that the promise is not that we will never encounter difficult times. Indeed, Paul faced trouble most of the time!
No matter what we face we can be absolutely sure that it will not separate us from the love of God, whether these be physical, emotional or spiritual attacks and dangers. In fact in all these things we will be more than conquerors. What does this mean? It means that we will not just come through the trials and survive them, but we will actually come through them stronger than when we went in. We will be more Christlike than when we started. There will be more of God's glory in our lives.
Note that the grounds for this confidence is the certainty of God's love for us. We need to spend time dwelling on the fact that God loves us. In every circumstance we should ask,"how much more of God's love am I going to see in this?", and we should be looking for the victory, not expecting defeat.
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