“For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4 NIV
John begins with a principle that is so simple, yet so powerful: if we are born of God, we will overcome the world. The idea that anything born of God could be defeated by this world was strange to John and it should be strange to us. It is our faith that overcomes the world. But faith must have an object. The object of our faith is Jesus Christ. It is our faith in the Person and work of the Lord Jesus that gains victory over the world. It is trusting in the death, burial, Resurrection, Ascension of Christ Jesus our Saviour, and Lord for the forgiveness of sins and life everlasting, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit into our lives through Pentecost we overcome the world. It is our identification with Christ and His finished work by FAITH, that causes us to be overcomers. All who trust in Him are identified with HIM and His victory. We are identified with His life. We are identified with His death, and we are identified with His victory over sin, death, and the world. Because the Lord Jesus has overcome the world, all who trust in His name have also overcome the world by association with HIM. This is not only an initial, “come-to-the-altar-and-get-saved” faith, but a consistently abiding faith, an ongoing reliance and trust upon Jesus Christ. The life of abiding faith and trust in Jesus Christ is the life that overcomes the pressures and temptations of the world. We overcome primarily because of who we are in Christ, not because of what we do.
PRAYER THOUGHT
Thank You that we overcome because of who we are in You.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Thank You, Lord Jesus that our life of abiding faith and trust in You is the life that overcomes the pressures and temptations of the world. We overcome primarily because of who we are in You, not because of what we do. AMEN
I.B.R.A. Readings
John 3:11-21
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