Accepting Victory Through Jesus
Our victory in the Christian warfare does not consist in our going out to battle with the hope of gaining a victory, but in appropriating the victory before we go out to meet the enemy. The real battle is in our inmost souls, and there is where we must gain the victory if we have it at all. What others see of our experience is simply the outward manifestation of an experience through which we have already passed when we were in the secret place with God. The struggle comes in being willing to give up our fears of defeat and our own plans for victory, and to accept victory simply as a gift. He gives us continual victory through the continual gift of Jesus the victor. We accept the victory by accepting the victorious life of Jesus.