THE VICTORY

 

 

When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at nought

and you can smile inwardly glorying in the insult or the oversight—

that is victory!

 

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed,

your tastes offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed and you take it all in patient and loving silence—

that is victory!

 

When you are content with any food and raiment,

any climate and society, any solitude, any interruption—

that is victory!

 

When you can bear with any discord, any irregularity,

any unpunctuality, any annoyance—

that is victory!

 

When you can stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it all as Jesus endured it—

that is victory!

 

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation,

or to record your own good works, or to seek after commendation,

when you can truly love to be unknown—

that is victory!

 

 

--Author Unknown

 

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (1 John 5:3-4).  

 

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God (Revelation 15:2).  

 

The standard is high to which we must attain if we would be children of God, pure, holy, and undefiled. How could we reach this standard if there were no difficulties to meet, no obstacles to surmount, nothing to develop patience and endurance? Trials are not the smallest blessings that come to us. They are designed to nerve us to determination to succeed. Instead of allowing them to hinder, oppress, and destroy us, we are to use them as God's means of enabling us to gain the victory over self. {The Signs of the Times, February 18, 1903}

 

We become overcomers by helping others to overcome. We overcome by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of our testimony. {The Review and Herald, February 25, 1909}

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