Thoughts for another day

May 28, 2014.

Today's verse:  Jn. 16:33. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

If there’s one thing that gives me great satisfaction when I face the mountains before me, it is the fact that Jesus has overcome the world.  He has gone this way and He knows it all.  He has set his foot on the pedal and hit the metal and made the moves and He rolls and that’s why when trouble besets me I know that I’m more than a conqueror for the Lord of the universe has conquered it on my behalf and boy; does He know how to conquer!  He yanked the devil of his perch and made a laughing stock of him and his minions of scamsters, with His Cross and laughed His way to heaven for just when the devil thought he had won when Jesus died on the Cross and was laid in the grave, our Lord burst asunder by the power of the Holy Spirit and laid low the evil scheme of the foxiest of them, the son of perdition and destroyed his fortress of bitter gall once and for all.

Jesus came from the Father to save me.  He lived His life and He died for you and me.   He gave us the whiff of victory which we see in our own lives by following His principles for us and thus He set a new ‘Way’ before us; a new life if one may say.  In this Jesus led us the way of peace and gave us such peace that no matter what the devil may throw upon us, he cannot rob us of the peace Jesus gave us.  Inside of us is such a fortress created by the Lord in which lies our goodness and our strength and no matter what the devil do, he cannot penetrate that fortress.

In the Grace that Jesus sends us without cease, we live our lives by our hope in Him.  Fall we will, for we’re but human, but we will get up and be of good cheer for the post of victory lies just ahead and our Savior is near to hold us up, make us rise and lead us there.  His power never leaves us and His great deed of victory never ceases to etch itself on our minds.  His glory is our waving flag and His Cross our cape of honor.  All in all because He overcame the world, we will too and be with Him in His kingdom forever.