More than conquerors?

And the Lord said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." Moses said, "Please show me your glory." And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live." And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen."
-Exodus 33:17-23

These verses are pretty scary to me. They show just how glorious God is. A glory so great that if I were to look upon his face I would die. I am so glad that my God is powerful. I am so glad that I can't understand him. It's amazing to me how I can read a verse over and over and I read it again just at the right time in my life and I find something that I've never found, something I had always looked over. It's alive, God's word. Alive, deep, relevent, penetrating.....

Sometimes I feel like a baby when it comes to the things of God. And I know that in a lot of ways I surely am, but God has such a way with words that even the oldest, wisest, most knowledgeable Christ-follower has to stop and ponder on a verse or sentence or word while reading the bible.


If God is for us, who can be against us?...Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?...No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
-Romans 8:31-39

-Randy