Overcomers

Behind the house where I spent the biggest part of my childhood was a pasture fence. Each day we watched the pigs waller and the cows graze. Although there was plenty of grass inside the fence, the cows pushed their way through the fence's small openings to eat the grass growing outside the fence. It's so "us" to live with the "if only" attitude toward life: if-only this and if-only that. Jesus said, "in this world, you will have tribulations" and troubles we have! What foolish imaginations of life with smoother waters, paved highways or greener grass. Charles Spurgeon wrote: "Ah, if thou hadst no devil to tempt thee, no enemies to fight thee, and no world to ensnare thee, thou wouldst still find in thyself evil enough to be a sore trouble to thee, for 'the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked!'" Jesus ends His statement with "take courage, I have overcome the world." It is wise to remember "this world" is not home to Believers; while here, however, we have Jesus' promise He is with us and He has already faced and overcome every trouble known to man. He has overcome - that's why with Him, we are ... overcomers.