By Dennis Edwards
Here's a beautiful song sung by Joan Baez. However, man has shown time and time again that he is incapable of living in peace and harmony. Man cannot have peace without peace on the inside, without peace of heart, peace of mind and peace of spirit. He cannot find peace within himself because he is troubled with doubt, anguished with his own inability to always be good and do good. Like the great Apostle Paul said, "For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that do I. Who shall deliver me from the bondage of this death?"[1] But Paul, the murderer and persecutor of the new religious sect, found the answer. He says, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord."[2]
It's only by letting the love of God in our hearts in His son Jesus that we can overcome, overcome our selfishness, overcome our lack of love, overcome our depression, overcome our fears and anxieties, overcome our anger, overcome our pains, overcome our murmurings, overcome our failures and overcome our sins. Jesus has overcome and he offers us his overcoming grace, his overcoming Holy Spirit, his overcoming love, his overcoming forgiveness. But without Him, we are nothing and will accomplish nothing of real value. But with Him all things are possible.
Have you got that overcoming feeling down in your heart? Call out to Jesus, because through Him, you can overcome! He says, “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."[3] “He that overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death.”[4] “To him that overcomes will I give power over the nations.”[5] “He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."[6]
John the Apostle tells us: “Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”[7] Do you want to be an over-comer? Then let God’s overcoming spirit into your life through Jesus Christ our Lord and you can become as Paul said “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, (in other words, more than over-comers), through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”[8] Join the team! Overcome!
Footnotes.
[1] Romans 7:19 & 24
[2] Romans 7:25
[3] Revelation 2:7
[4] Revelation 2:11
[5] Revelation 2:26
[6] Revelation 21:17
[7] 1 John 5:5
[8] Romans 8:37-39
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