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"Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us
to triumph in Christ." (II Cor. 2 :14.)
When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at naught,
and you smile inwardly, glorying in the insult or oversight-that
is victory.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed,
your taste offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions
ridiculed, and you take it all in patient loving silence-that is
victory. When you are content with any food, any raiment, any
climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption by the will
of God-that is victory.
When you can lovingly and patiently deal with any disorder, any
irregularity, any unpunctuality or any annoyance-that is
victory.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation or to
record your own good works or to itch after commendation; when
you can truly love to be unknown-that is victory. When you can
stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual
insensibility, and endure it as Jesus endured it-that is
victory.
When like Paul, you can throw all your suffering on Jesus, thus
converting it into a means of knowing His overcoming grace, and
can say with a surrendered heart, "Most gladly therefore do I
take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake"-that is victory
(See II Cor. 12:7-10).
When death and life are both alike to you through Christ, and to
do His perfect will, you delight no more in one than the
other-that is victory; for through Him you may be able to say,
"Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or
by death." (Phil. 1:20.)
The perfect victory is to "put on the Lord Jesus Christ" and
thus to triumph over self. (Rom. 13:14). "In all these things we
are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Rom. 8:37.
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