May 10, 2023
Wednesday
Victory in Him
2 Corinthians 2: 14-15
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
To first-century leaders in the Roman world, the imagery was familiar: A victorious Roman general returning from battle leading his soldiers and their captives into the city. Citizens lined the streets applauding while the aroma of celebratory incense filled the air. Paul uses that image to say that Christ leads His followers in a victory procession through every difficulty in life (2 Corinthians 2:14-15).
The Christian’s victory is through Christ. The victory over the world, the flesh, the devil, and sin was won by the Cross and the empty tomb. He did for us what we cannot do for ourselves. We have victory now and for eternity only because of the victory Christ won for us. Therefore, if we are to experience victory in this life, it will come only as we depend on Him. As Paul wrote in Galatians 2:20, the life we now live is the life of Christ in us as we keep our faith in Him.
If you need a victory in your life, begin every day by renewing your faith in Christ in whom all our victories are to be realized.
A point to ponder…
The spiritual battle, the loss of victory, is always in the thought-world.
Francis Schaeffer
Read the Bible through in a year
1 Chronicles 28- 2 Chronicles 1
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