Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Victory

A recent phone text encouraged me greatly, especially the last sentence:

“Certain victory lies ahead of the believer!”

Yes, whether in the day-to-day living of the Christian life, or whether we are called to pass through death, there is victory in Jesus. As we avail ourselves of the many resources that we have in Him, we can with triumph and certainty say,

“Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:57).

And in the end it is a win-win situation. Here is how the Apostle Paul expressed it in the preceding verses:

“Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (verses 54-57).

In the meantime we are given a further exhortation,

 “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (verse 58).