With God we will always win!

​Here’s something that you may have heard many times before: With God we have the victory in every situation we face on earth. If you’re like me and have heard this time and again, the tendency may be to say to yourself, “yes, yes. I know that, and I do believe that. But it sure doesn’t look like it, or feel like it right now". I’m hoping by the end of this blog you’ll experience a deeper joy and confidence in God in going forward through your trial or circumstance.

Imagine an Olympic Sprint athlete, preparing for the Summer Games 6 months away. How do you think the following information would affect their daily mental state and stress level as they train 6 months out: That they will win under any circumstance.  That it is a done deal. That it is a foregone conclusion. That as long as they keep up their regimen of training and don’t let up, give up, or doubt the outcome, the medal will be theirs. If this truly would be the case I would imagine that: The stress of losing would be eliminated; the doubts of whether they were good enough to win would be eliminated; any and all obstacles would be overcome; the joy of winning would begin right now instead of 6 months from now. All they’d have to do is to continue the tough job of going through their training till the end of the race.

Now of course we know we cannot determine the future no matter how much we’d like to. We live life in reverse; hindsight is 20/20 vision but the future needs to unfold as we go forward. But what I want to encourage you with today, is that there is someone who knows 100% what our future holds and his name is Jesus. And not only does he know what the outcome to our current circumstance, trial, grief, heartache, pain, anguish, unhappiness, set-back, loss, condition, or situation will be, he has the solution and the way through it. Remember how Jesus was asleep in the stern of the boat while a violent storm threatened to sink the boat he was in with his disciples? The disciples cried out to him saying “Teacher, do you not care if we drown?” (Mark 4:38) Perhaps they had tried to have faith and believe; perhaps they thought they could beat the storm or go around it trying in their own effort. They basically did not believe he would or could save them. You see, the fear of what the storm could do was in the disciples; but the storm was not in Jesus. He knew whose he was and that his Father had all things under control.  He said to his disciples in V40, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” I’m sure he might be saying the same thing to you and I when we’re going through stuff.

​ We simply (but not always easy, just like the Olympian) have to continue our training in having full and complete confidence in faith that Jesus will despite all circumstances ensure that we endure until we cross the finish line. We do not need to worry. He will never ask us to do anything that he has not already equipped us to do in the first place. Whatever you are facing He is the One who will give you exactly what you need to finish the race.

​And with Jesus we are all winners.