We live in a day when, if we do not overcome, we will be overcome. The world, the flesh and the devil are constantly at work to overcome us. While we have been delivered from their power by our Deliverer, we are exhorted to stand firm against the tide of evil flooding this world. We are not only to stand against it but to overcome it with good.
As the authors of this issue bring before us, nothing less than a single eye — fixed on the Lord Jesus as the object of the heart and of faith — will carry us above the flood that threatens to drag us down and carry us along with the current that is sweeping man on to certain judgment.
We are under constant pressure to let go and give up the good fight of faith. To each of us the Lord by the Spirit encourages, “Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown” (Rev. 3:1111Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (Revelation 3:11)).
Our Lord Jesus overcame. He encourages us to do the same. Then with Him we shall enjoy our eternal portion: “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be My son” (Rev. 21:77He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. (Revelation 21:7)).