Called to Be Overcomers

UV 3683/10000 Called to Be Overcomers I have told you these things, so that in Me you have (perfect) peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous ( be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy); I have overcome the world.” John 16 v 33 Jesus told us all things, about His death, about His resurrection, about our eternal life in Him. Hence, we have perfect peace as complete payment has been made for our restoration to God. He does not promise that our lives will be a bed of roses but warns us of the thorns of persecution, distress, suffering that is bound to mark the life of the believer. Yet, in the midst of it, we can be courageous, confident, overflowing with peace and joy as Jesus has shown us the way we can overcome all of these and the world. We are called to be Overcomers like Him. We need to overcome our fears, our worries, our troubles, our weaknesses, our temptations. Jesus in this uni-verse was strengthening His followers to face hardship and struggles as they walked in faith in Him. He knew that they would soon be scattered and they would leave Him alone. He desired that they know the only true, supreme and sovereign God, His Father even as they knew Him as the Son sent by the Father to redeem mankind. He told His disciples that He had overcome as He had completed His mission on earth, completed the work assigned by the Father. In so doing He had glorified the Father. By completing our work on earth, we too are overcoming the world and we, too are glorifying the Father and the Son with the constant help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus manifested the name of the Father in all that He said and did. Likewise, we too should manifest the name of the Father and the Son Jesus in all that we say and do in our lives. The words of Jesus gave His disciples a strong sense of courage and commitment that they began to manifest themselves as overcomers, as apostles of Jesus. We are not of the world though we are in the world. Hence, there is always a tension, a struggle imminent in our lives. But the word of Christ is what will strengthen, encourage and enable us to complete our work, fulfill His purpose, glorify His name. To hold His word in our hearts and have it in our mouths like a sword of the spirit is what will establish and give us abiding victory in Christ.