Young Christians Calendar – Thursday, June 26, 2014

Thursday, June 26, 2014

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Overcoming

“This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).

Faith is more than what is needed to believe the gospel. It’s needed in our daily battles against the world. Are the attractions of the world, the glamour and the fame in the world pulling you away from the Lord? Let your faith take hold. It has a magnetic attraction to Christ. Let it pull you towards Him and so overcome the world.

We have the Lord as the perfect example. At the end of His life, just before He returned to heaven, He said to His disciples, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). He wasn’t promising them that life would be easy after He was gone, but He was promising that there would be an inner peace, and an outward overcoming as a result of trusting Him in every circumstance, and following Him through every circumstance. It takes real faith to live for the Lord in a world like this.

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