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| [Jesus said,] “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” |
| —John 16:33 |
Are you a natural overcomer? An overcomer is someone who takes everything that happens in stride and works his or her way through the difficulty, knowing that such a challenge is just for a season.
If you are not an overcomer, then you need someone to overcome in your behalf. Let me introduce you to the best overcomer of all time. His name is Jesus. In the Scripture verse at the beginning of this blog post, Jesus declares that He has overcome the world. That means He has overcome every negative aspect of this world. There is nothing that He has not faced and overcome. We have a quite accurate description of His ability to overcome in the four Gospels of the New Testatment.
In the previous two blog posts, I have shared some of the truths that underpin this concept that we can face anything when we recognize that God holds us in the hollow of His mighty hand. This blog post continues that same theme. But, in this blog post, we come to the understanding that we do not need to have the power in and of ourselves to overcome the trials in our lives. Jesus has promised to give us peace because He has overcome everything that may face us.
If I want to learn how to perform some task, it is helpful to either watch someone perform that task who has become an expert at performing the task, or at the very least listen to someone describe how to perform that task. When we face rough patches in our lives, we can learn how to move forward by remembering that no matter what we face, Jesus has faced that same issue and He has overcome it.
Each one of us can become an overcomer by allowing Jesus to overcome those things in our lives that we cannot face alone. Even if we do not believe that we have the strength or ability to overcome, we can rest in the reality that Jesus does have the power, strength, and ability to overcome anything that we must face.
