Conquerors

Let's see now. We are aliens in a hostile world. We have a powerful enemy who is constantly trying to attack God by attacking us. We have a sin nature that is in conflict with the Holy Spirit's desire to transform us. We have a world that constantly bombards us with ideas meant to conform us to their image and thought processes. We are surrounded by needs, and our resources and abilities can never completely solve the problem. The things we want to do we don't do, and the things we don't want to do, we end up doing. We live in bodies of flesh that time and age and ache and get sick and have unquenchable appetites. We live a life of faith with no guarantee of the outcome; and often, no idea what the outcome was.

And yet, we are more than conquerors. Why? "Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." When we are weak, then we are strong. Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. "My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory." "Faithful is He who called you, who will also perform it." Yes, "thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" As the song writer says, "Not to the strong is the battle, not to the swift is the race, but to the true and the faithful, victory is promised through grace." "Marvelous grace of our loving Lord!" "Great is Thy faithfulness!"