Victory or Death

Victory or Death

Moreover, what shall we say about our failings and shortcomings, and how in their midst can we have confidence before God. Concerning this, we evolve into one of two dispositions. One is that we lean upon our fallen nature and we become our own excuse. Seeing all sin as equal, and knowing perfection is not attainable, we sink and surrender. Unwillingly, as Paul proclaimed, we drown in sin and so grace abounds. Though we may not articulate it as such, such is the disposition of the heart. By contrast, another disposition is to see sin as an evil to conquer. Victory over sin is seen as the prize, the proof of God in us. As Christ conquered sin and death, so we fight to taste this same victory. The disposition of the heart looks not for excuses, but rather the path to victory. When the need to make excuses is greater than the need to forge a path to victory, the soul is surely spiritually sick at best, or desperately lost at worse. The power of the living God imparted to His children will never serve to foster complacency in the face of sin, for we are more than conquerors through Christ who died for us. Let your fight not be to excuse the obvious, but rather to become victorious over the inevitable!

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