Today's encouragement comes from 1 John 5:4, where we read these words:
"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith."This is a favorite verse of mine—partly because it confirms so much hope for life in this world. Do we realize that regenerate churchmen who walk with Jesus are lords over the devil, his horde, and all persons who hope in inferior religions? This does not mean that we are sinless (because we are not); and it does not make us tyrants (because that is not how Jesus rules).
. . . But our faith in Christ provides us a perfect victory over all the fallen world; and we need not fear it, submit to its ways, nor be in any way manipu-lated by it. Let all God's children rejoice in their Redeemer; and let us always recognize the absolute primacy of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
[Puritan quote of the day: "It is not so much the sins we have committed that so provoke and grieve Christ as that we refuse the [medicine] of repentance which He prescribes.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]
